A dictionary of electrical words, terms and phrases (1896)
Houston, Edwin J. (Edwin James), 1847-1914 · New York, The W.J. Johnston company · leaf 532
hone receiver so ar-ranged as to permit of easy application toboth ears of the listener at the receiving in-strument. Telephone Cords.—(See Cords, Tele-phone^) Telephone, Electro-Capillary A telephone in which the movements of thetransmitting diaphragm produce currents bymeans of variations in the… … struction and operate by means of electro-capil-lary phenomena. A vertical capillary tube com-municates at its upper end with an air spacebelow a diaphragm, and at its lower end with amercury surface on which rests a layer of acidu-lated water. A line wire connects the mercury reservoirs ofthe…
Electricity · Electrical engineering
Internet Archive · Library of Congress · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
