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单词 fullerphone
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Fullerphonen.

Brit. /ˈfʊləfəʊn/, U.S. /ˈfʊlərˌfoʊn/
Forms: also with lower-case initial.
Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Fuller , phone n.2
Etymology: < the name of Algernon Clement Fuller (1885–1970), British soldier and inventor + phone n.2Fuller applied for a patent for the device in 1916, but was not permitted to publish details until after the war ( Brit. Patent 124,504 (1919)).
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.
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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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