"Here again a wholly separate and
extraneous conversation was superim
posed over tbe sounds proceeding by
each route, so that were either of the
lines tapped the' listener-in would be
rewarded for his pains by hearing a
torrent^, of- sound which would convince
him that he was listening to a combi
nation of Choctaw, Chinese, the rav
ings of John McCullough, and the
symptoms of a severe cold. Notwith
standing the undeniable ingenuity of
this system, the signal corps experts
demonstrated, to the unconcealed as
tonishment of the inventors, that they
could overhear and understand these
crazy-built conversations as readily as
though they were being held across a
dinner table ln:plain English."
Products of American Ingenuity.
