wireless arc telephony which dramatically graduated the ship-
to-ship telephone from a seventy-mile-range spark set squawk to
an effective two-way trans-oceanic voice communication. On
President Wilson's second trip to France, the human voice was
transmitted trans-oceanically for the first time in history, as man
was heard through the receiving instrument in Arlington, Vir-
ginia, speaking over the transmitter in the radio shack atop the
U.S.S. George Washington at anchor in Brest, France.

This Navy experience also involved a tour of duty with naval
aviation and short assignments escorting underwater craft. In
our first naval aviation training program of 1917, seaplanes
crashed daily, usually "stubbing" their floats, tripping and cap-
sizing as they bit the water. A seaplane rescue mast and boom
which I design-invented and mounted on high-speed patrol
craft for yanking the usually-capsized crashed planes from the
water, with the intent of saving the belted-in, stunned pilots
from their usual fate of drowning, won me an appointment to
the special course at the U.S. Naval Academy in 1917.

Such pattern-experience continually excited conceptioning in
potential advantages accruable to new complex design integra-
tions, and subsequent conceptual experimentation with for-
wardly conceived and theoretically designable entities. It made
possible, for instance, a clear and reliable prevision of an en-
tirely new type ship, and a well developed prescience of handling
that ship in action; but all, of course, prior to its actual experi-
mental development, physical building and final sea trials, as
proof of the original conceptioning's validity.

This coordinate predemonstration conceptioning and integra-
tion is a mental functioning which must for millenniums have
been common to those men who have undertaken new phases
of ship design and building techniques and who today also lead
the accelerating-acceleration in design evolution now character-
izing air-ocean craft, which is developing at an exponential rate
of growth without precedent in, and unanticipated by, history.

In their teleologic treatment of omni-oceans architecture --
operating within, upon and around the liquid and gaseous en-
velopes of earth -- the clear prevision of comprehensive designers
integrates, perforce by stark physical limiting factors, a syner-

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