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Example sentences for "telephone receiver"

  • On the table was the receiving apparatus, made very sensitive, and including a telephone receiver.

  • If a gas flame is made part of the circuit of an electric battery, which includes also an induction-coil connected to a telephone receiver, then when a stream of electric waves comes along there is a click in the receiver.

  • A telephone receiver for a wireless receiving set is made exactly on the same principle as an ordinary Bell telephone receiver.

  • In its simplest form this consists of a metal cone like a megaphone to which is fitted a telephone receiver.

  • We can connect a telephone receiver, or a current-measuring instrument, or any thing we wish which will pass a stream of electrons, so as to let this same stream of electrons pass through it also.

  • Illustration: Fig 60] Even if we could, there are several reasons why the telephone receiver wouldn't work at such high frequencies.

  • It certainly wouldn't do any good to connect a telephone receiver in the antenna circuit at the receiving station as in Fig.

  • I am connecting a telephone receiver in the plate circuit, and also a condenser, the latter for a reason to be explained later.

  • Illustration: Telephone Receiver] lamp cord, passed through a hole in the bottom of the can and knotted inside to prevent pulling out.

  • The signals are heard in a telephone receiver, which is shown connected in shunt across the binding posts of the lamp holder with one or two cells of dry battery in circuit, Fig.

  • At his ear was a telephone receiver, this having been substituted for the relay and the Morse instrument because of its far greater sensitiveness.

  • He demonstrated that if one coil of wire be set up and a current sent through it, a similar coil facing it will have like currents induced within it, which may be detected with a telephone receiver.

  • Thus a telephone receiver arranged in series with it was made to reproduce the sounds.

  • This unbroken wave train does not affect the telephone and is not audible in a telephone receiver inserted in the radio receiving circuit.

  • One cold December day in 1901, Guglielmo Marconi sat still in a room in the Government building at Signal Hill, St. Johns, Newfoundland, with a telephone receiver at his ear and his eye on the clock that ticked loudly nearby.

  • It requires a stretch neither of the imagination nor of the truth to call a telephone receiver an electro-magnet, although perhaps it has never been called that before.

  • The boys unscrewed the end of a telephone receiver (Fig.

  • It may be a piano string, or a tuning fork, or a reed of an electric buzzer, or the diaphragm of a telephone receiver.

  • The secondary circuit is closed through a telephone receiver.

  • That suggested to Duddell that a direct- current arc might be used as a telephone receiver.

  • In other words, an arc light can be made to act as a telephone receiver.

  • It was not the peculiar tapping, singing noise heard in a telephone receiver, caused by induced electrical currents, or by wire trouble.

  • Ned, as he saw his chum seated in a booth, with a telephone receiver to his ear, meanwhile looking steadily at a polished metal plate in front of him.

  • These amplifiers were somewhat like the horn of a phonograph--they increased, or magnified the sound, so that one could hear a voice from any part of the shop, and need not necessarily have the telephone receiver at his ear.

  • These collectors are fitted to a crystal of carborundum and a telephone receiver.

  • In the upper room he attached the wires from the storeroom to what looked like a piece of crystal and a telephone receiver.


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