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transmitter
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the part of a telephonic or telegraphic apparatus that converts sound waves or mechanical movements into corresponding electric waves or impulses
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simultaneous
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existing, occurring, or operating at the same time; concurrent
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telegraphy
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an apparatus, system, or process for transmitting messages or signals to a distant place, esp. by means of an electric device consisting essentially of a sending instrument and a distant receiving instrument connected by a conducting wire or other communications channel
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phonautograph
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An instrument by means of which a sound can be made to produce a visible trace or record of itself. It consists essentially of a resonant vessel, closed at one end by a flexible membrane. A stylus attached to some point of the membrane records the movements of the latter, as it vibrates, upon a moving cylinder or plate.
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undulatory
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having the form or appearance of waves.
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phonograph
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any sound-reproducing machine using records in the form of cylinders or discs.
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incandescent
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1.glowing or white with heat.
2.intensely bright; brilliant. |
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filament
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a very fine thread or threadlike structure; a fiber or fibril
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direct current
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an electric current of constant direction, having a magnitude that does not vary or varies only slightly. Abbreviation: dc
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alternating current
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an electric current that reverses direction at regular intervals, having a magnitude that varies continuously in sinusoidal manner. Abbreviation: ac
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