| 释义 |
fullerphone|ˈfʊləfəʊn|
[f. name of Major A. C. Fuller + -phone in telephone.]
A telegraphic instrument used in war-signalling.
1920Glasgow Herald 2 Mar. 7 The claim of Major A. C. Fuller in respect of the ‘Fullerphone’. 1922Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 491/2 The fullerphone is a telegraph instrument, the essential point of which is the changing at the receiving end of a steady current into an intermittent current of audible frequency, while at the same time the current in the line remains steady. 1928Blunden Undertones of War xxvi. 253 The mechanism of the ‘fullerphone’ or ‘power buzzer’. |