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Example sentences for "single wire"

  • Bring the free end of the leading-in wire down to the middle post of the lightning switch and fasten it there and connect up the receiver to it and the ground as described under the caption of A Single Wire Aerial.

  • Here is an exhausted bulb suspended from a single wire.

  • You have seen before that we may now convey the electric vibration to a body by means of a single wire or conductor of any kind.

  • By one of these two systems a single wire could be used for sending two messages in opposite directions, and by the other in the same direction or in opposite directions.

  • The early telephones were operated with a single wire grounded at either end, the earth return being used to complete the circuit as with the telegraph.

  • From the top of this was strung a single wire and a new series of experiments was begun.

  • On the telegraph as invented by Morse but one message could be sent over a single wire at one time.

  • This discovery opened up to my mind the possibility of three things--the transmission of music and of speech or articulate words through a telegraph-wire, and the transmission of a number of messages over a single wire.

  • In the early days of telephony great difficulty was experienced in using a single wire grounded at each end in the ordinary way, if it ran near other wires that were in active use.

  • The object of the automatic system was to send a large amount of business through a single wire in a short time.

  • At a later period this gentleman undertook a series of experiments with a view to the establishment of a communication by means of a single wire, but some mechanical difficulties appear to have arrested his progress.

  • The power of a single wire in causing this deviation of a needle is but small, but this was remedied by the invention of the multiplier or galvanometer by Prof.

  • Alexander, however, effected one great improvement in substituting a single wire to which one end of all the coils was joined for the several return wires existing in the previous invention of M.

  • This printing telegraph works with a single wire, but its operation is rather slow.

  • Each circuit, therefore, consisted of only a single wire; the wire that had been previously used to complete the circuit being superseded by burying in the earth, at each terminus, a small copper plate.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    give command; manuscript book; single atom; single consonant; single copy; single drop; single game; single gentleman; single head; single instant; single letter; single life; single organ; single person; single point; single room; single series; single specimen; single stem; single stroke; single term; single thought; single witness; single word; soon will; waste lands