Reginald Fessenden and his electric oscillator, the first acoustic device to
receive echoes from the bottom as well as from an obstruction in the water. The
oscillator was designed as an underwater signalling, communication, and
obstruction avoidance device. In "Submarine Signaling," Scientific American
Supplement, No. 2071, pp. 168-170, Sept. 11, 1915.
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