As the delicate receivers came to her ears she drew a long breath, the colour dying from her face.
The battery and telephones being carefully attached to the wires, the man took one of the receivers and listened.
The reader can imagine how I was shocked to see intoxicating wine presented and partaken of among gentlemen and ladies who professed to be receivers and believers in a new revelation of Divine truth from God to man.
Telegraph service was improvised, and radio receiversrushed in.
Notwithstanding this, thesereceivers were capable of giving excellent articulation and were of marvelous delicacy of action.
The early forms of telephone receivers were of the single-pole type; that is, the type wherein but one pole of the electromagnet was presented to the diaphragm.
Thus far in this chapter only those receivers which are commonly called hand receivershave been discussed.
As a result, it was necessary to always connect the receivers in the line circuit in a certain way, and this operation was called poling.
This is still done, and necessarily so, in receivers employed in connection with magneto telephones.
In other words, why is it that voice currents originating at Station A will pass only to the receiver at Station B and not to the receivers at Station C or Station H, for instance?
Receivers of today differ from this old single-pole receiver in two radical respects.
As a result of this it is frequently impossible for one party to repeat the call for another because, during the interval between the first and second call, a number of parties remove their receivers from their hooks in order to listen.
These are thereceivers that are ordinarily employed by the general public.
A condenser is placed in series with each of the bells in order that there may be no direct-current path from one side of the line to the other when all of the receivers are on their hooks at the several stations.
The usual diagrammatic symbols for hand and head receivers are shown in Fig.
At the central office in telephone exchanges the operators are provided with receivers in order that they may communicate with the subscribers or with other operators.
Apparently very powerful influences are at work, and the line of conduct taken up by the Home office suggests to my mind that collusion between the receivers and distributors of drugs and the police is suspected by someone.
But finally he assured me that all the receiversin England had amalgamated, and that the price he charged represented a very narrow margin of profit.
I have thought for a long time that the authorities must know the names of the receiversand distributors of cocaine, veronal, opium, and the other drugs, huge quantities of which find their way regularly to the West End of London.
Their transmitters are all right, but their receivers are out of order, so they only get a dot here and a dash there.
Perhaps the induction is faulty; perhaps the receivers aren't tuned to receive just the number of vibrations per second that the transmitter sends.
Vernai, "and have mostly succeeded; and as for the other receivers they are at perfect liberty to follow M.
But of the secret votes thus given for what they call a "member of Congress," the receivers reported that I had a majority, or at least a larger number than any other one person.
Condensing Worm (Plan)] The cooling-pipe is at its lower end connected with receivers for the various distillates in such a manner that by the turning of a cock the flow of the distillates into the receivers can be changed at will.
There are no less than eighty-seven houses in London known to be those of receivers of stolen goods.
These receivers are the curse of large towns, where alone they are to be found.
Professor Wallace, objects to "continuing any payments of interests beyond the lives of the present receivers and their direct heirs [now living], who may have been brought up to expect such inheritance.
They are generally cultivators, but they had formerly rather a bad reputation for crime, and it is said that some of them are receivers of stolen property.
The king was prodigal in his grants; for the more he multiplied the receivers of his bounties, the more numerous would be the stanch defenders of their new possessions:[1] gratitude was the least of their merits.
The principal difficulty with this scheme lies in the fact that the receivers of a vessel will be affected by its own transmitter.
Periodical signals being made with the transmitter, corresponding impressions would be made upon the receivers of approaching vessels.
He nervously fitted the microphone receivers to his ears---and the next moment sat bolt upright.
With the receivers to his hears he could hear plainly the swish of the vessel's propeller blades as she bore down upon the floating submarine.
We seem to have landed plumb in the nest of a German raiding party," rattled off the electrician glibly as he passed the receivers to his commander for a verification of his report.
Little Mack" adjusted the receivers and stood listening to the revolving propellers of the craft that approached and passed overhead.
They are right on top of us now," screamed Sammy Smith as he hugged the microphone receivers to his ears.
All at once the boys were startled by a cry from Sammy Smith, who had suddenly leaped to his feet and stood swaying in the wireless room with both microphone receivers tightly pressed to his ears.
The wireless chief dashed down the receivers and hurried to find Lieutenant Mcclure.
Such persons lived remote from the civilised community and the inspection of their employers: often the channel of communication between the town receivers and country thieves; nor this alone.
Receivers were always at hand, and robbers were tolerably insured when the first danger was over, by the rapid shipment of their spoil.
The receiversof the taille and of the taxes add one-half each year in expenses above the tax.
Unfortunately one law applied exclusively to the case of pewter-pots, and another exclusively to the precious metals; neither could be used as againstreceivers of horses or bank notes.
He desires, for example, a law to punish receivers of stolen goods, and says that there were excellent laws in existence.
The receivers are then visited in turn by the thieves, shown samples, and bids are requested.
If there were no receivers of stolen goods there would be but little burglary of these or any other kinds: A thief will not steal unless he knows that he can make some profitable disposition of his haul.
Then he permitted Henry to clamp on thereceivers and listen in.
In another room various instruments were installed here and there, the walls were covered with diagrams of wireless instruments and outfits, and lines of men were sitting at long tables with receivers at their ears.
After the others had seen him take his seat and adjust his receivers to his head, they withdrew from the wireless room.
But suddenly he jammed the receivers back on his ears and sat tense.
Two operators sat at a wonderful Marconi outfit with receivers clamped to their ears.
And do not forget that the oscillator and the receiving instrument are so tuned to each other that there is no danger, according to Tesla's scheme, of different oscillators and receivers getting mixed up.
Then another coil was wound around the first one on the glass tube and connected with the head telephone receivers which have taken the place of the Morse dot and dash printing instrument in all the modern wireless instruments.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "receivers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
