单词 | fullerphone |
释义 | Fullerphonen. Now historical. A form of telegraph invented in the First World War (1914–18) that used a weak direct current rather than the alternating current of conventional telegraphy.The intended advantage was that messages sent in this way would be harder to intercept. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telegraphy > telegraph > [noun] > types of field telegraph1795 enunciator1847 needle telegraph1847 indicator-telegraph1875 multiple telegraph1876 harmonic telegraph1878 Fullerphone1917 telecon1946 1917 Fullerphone (War Office) 4 The Fullerphone is chiefly designed to take the place of the various ‘buzzing’ instruments in use in the Signal Service, in order to obviate the well-known disadvantage of these instruments. 1919 A. C. Fuller in Jrnl. Inst. Electr. Engineers 57 29/1 The Fullerphone..was primarily intended for military work. 1928 E. Blunden Undertones of War xxvi. 253 The mechanism of the ‘fullerphone’ or ‘power buzzer’. 1953 Boys' Life Mar. 69/1 (advt.) Here's the famous Fullerphone..at a sensationally low price. 2014 Stud. Hist. & Philos. Sci. 44 254 By 1918 the Fullerphone was widely used among the British and other allied armies. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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