Underwater telephone

Underwater telephone

The underwater telephone also known as UQC or Gertrude wasdeveloped by the U.S. Navy after World War II, the UQC underwater telephone is used on all manned submersibles in operation. Voices communicated through the UQC are heterodyned to a high pitch for acoustic transmission through water.

References

* [http://www.dosits.org/people/comm/1.htm Discovery of Sound in the Sea]


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