“…It should be noted in advance that SS is an academic desideratum, of interest for the history of acoustics and the history of technology, as well as from the perspectives of (geo)media, communication, sound, and cultural studies. The leading academic in the field of underwater acoustics mentions SS only briefly in reconstructing the prehistory of sonar (Hackmann, 1979(Hackmann, , 1984(Hackmann, , 1986 as do Elizabeth Bruton and Paul Coleman (2016) in their history of submarine audio technologies during the First World War, as do Gary Frost (2001) and John Shiga (2013Shiga ( , 2015Shiga ( , 2016 in their work in this respect. However, besides a short presentation (Howarth, 2015), no researcher has focused on SS exclusively.…”