 Suppose that a man speaks near a movable disk, sufficiently flexible to lose none of the vibrations of the voice, that this disk alternately makes and breaks the currents from a battery : you may have at a distance another disk, which will simultaneously...  Edison: His Life and Inventions - Page 171by Frank Lewis Dyer, Thomas Commerford Martin - 1910 - 998 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Groenendyke McMeen, Kempster Blanchard Miller - Telephone - 1923 - 982 pages
...was spoken in Vienna might not be heard in Paris? The thing is practicable in this way: "Suppose that a man speaks near a movable disk sufficiently flexible...none of the vibrations of the voice; that this disk oZ-* Fig. 4. Reis Transmitter lernately makes and breaks the connection from a battery; you may have... | |
 | Francis Arthur Jones - Electrical engineers - 1924 - 456 pages
...what was spoken in Vienna could not be heard in Paris. Suppose that a man speaks near a movable disc, sufficiently flexible to lose none of the vibrations of the voice; that the disc alternately makes and breaks the connection with the battery, you might have at a distance... | |
 | Big business - 1941 - 1604 pages
...obtained his patent, a certain Bourseul came close to a theoretical solution of the problem, "Suppose that a man speaks near a movable disk, sufficiently flexible...lose none of the vibrations of the voice; that this voice alternately makes and breaks the connection with a battery ; you may have at a distance another... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Temporary National Economic Committee - 1941 - 520 pages
...obtained his patent, a certain Bourseul came close to a theoretical solution of the problem, "Suppose that a man speaks near a, movable disk, sufficiently flexible...lose none of the vibrations of the voice; that this voice alternately makes and breaks the connection "With a battery; you may have at a distance another... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Small Business - Government publications - 1963 - 410 pages
...obtained his patent, a certain Bourseul came close to a theoretical solution of the problem, "Suppose that a man speaks near a movable disk, sufficiently flexible...lose none of the vibrations of the voice ; that this voice alternately makes and breaks the connection with a battery ; you may have 1 The exhaustive study... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1971 - 770 pages
...are reproduced by the intervening medium. • • • Suppose that a man speaks near a movable disc, sufficiently flexible to lose none of the vibrations of the voice; that this disc alternately makes and breaks the connection with a battery; you may have at a distance another... | |
 | Robert T. Beyer - Science - 1999 - 472 pages
...in the spirit of Jules Verne. A French electrician, Bourseul (1829-1912), wrote in 1854 Suppose that a man speaks near a movable disk, sufficiently flexible...voice; that this disk alternately makes and breaks the FIGURE 5-2. Wheatstone's telegraph, (a) Cooke and Wheatstone's five-needle telegraph, 1837; (b) Wheatstone's... | |
 | Seth Shulman - Science - 2008 - 256 pages
...telegraph that he believed would allow it to transmit the human voice. As he explains: Suppose that a man speaks near a movable disk, sufficiently flexible...voice, that this disk alternately makes and breaks the currents from a battery: you may have at a distance another disk, which will simultaneously execute... | |
 | Railroad engineering - 1895 - 386 pages
...telegraphist, conceived a plan of conveying sounds and speech by electricity. ' Suppose,' he explained, ' that a man speaks near a movable disk sufficiently flexible...voice, that this disk alternately makes and breaks the current from a battery ; you may have at a dislance another disk which will simultaneously execute... | |
 | Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1912 - 826 pages
...advanced the theory that speech itself might be transmitted by electricity. "Suppose" said he. "tliat a man speaks near a movable disk, sufficiently flexible...voice; that this disk alternately makes and breaks the current from a battery. You may hare at a distance another disk Khich will simultaneously execute the... | |
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