Széchényi Company Uses His Invention.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 28, 1912:
The Count's Submarine Wireless Tried Out by Torpedo Boat at Newport.
SEC'Y MEYER INTERESTED
Tests, Carried on Secretly with Assistance of Naval Authorities, Gave Much Promise of Success.
    Count Laszlo Széchényi, who married Gladys Vanderbilt, is the inventor of the submarine wireless telegraph, which the Submarine Wireless Company was formed to exploit, according to David C. Watts of 123 East Fifty-seventh Street, one of the incorporators.
    The company was incorporated on Monday at Albany after a telegram announcing a successful test of the invention had been received from Newport, where experiments have been made.
    Count Széchényi tried to arrange several months ago to experiment with his submarine wireless apparatus in New York Harbor, Mr. Watts said last night, but the attempt was given up because a vessel suitable for the tests could not be found. Later Count Széchényi laid his plans before Secretary of the Navy Meyer. Seeing the possibility that the invention might become of value in communication at sea, Secretary Meyer became interested at once and placed a torpedo boat in Newport Harbor at the disposal of the inventor.
    A series of experiments was conducted between the torpedo boat and an experiment station which was constructed in Newport Harbor and equipped with the submarine wireless apparatus.
    The invention is said to be an application of the principle of the wireless telegraph. The instruments invented by Count Széchényi are for sending and receiving sound-wave vibrations under water.
    The tests have been conducted with great secrecy by naval officers and Count Széchényi and his representatives. The knowledge that the experiments were taking place was confined to those interested in the invention and a few members of the Navy Department. The first public announcement of new submarine wireless telegraph came on Monday when the company was incorporated. The trials, it is said, were most thorough, and it was not until the Navy Department was satisfied that the invention was promising that Count Széchényi and his associates decided to take the step of forming a company and making public their work in a new field of communication. The dispatch telling of the success in sending messages through water was received in this city last week.
    Count Széchényi left Newport while the series of tests was in progress, laving a representative to keep him informed as to the results. He spent much of his time in Newport before sailing for Liverpool a few weeks ago on his way to his home in Hungary.
    John M. Russell and Eugene N. Robinson, law partners at 111 Broadway, who are among the incorporators, both left the city yesterday morning.  Mr. Russell went to Newport to be present at a demonstration of the submarine wireless, and Mr. Robinson went to Washington, where, it is said, he will interview the naval authorities who have been following the tests at Newport.
    Mr. Watts, the only one of the incorporators in the city last night, was not able to tell the distance that sound waves could be sent under water by the submarine wireless. He said that Count Széchényi had been experimenting with his invention for several years, and was also working on several other electrical devices at the present time,
    Count Széchényi is 32 years old. His marriage to Gladys Vanderbilt took place in 1908. His father, Count Emerick Széchényi, was at one time Austrian Minister at the Court of Berlin. His grand-uncle, Istvan Széchényi, was a famous patriot of Hungary. Countess Széchényí did not go to Europe with her husband on his last trip, and is now staying at the home of her mother, in Newport.