If monotones be adopted instead of those variations in pitch which belong to ordinary music, it is believed that several telephonic messages may be sent through the same wire at the same time.
The play on the keys with the fingers produces vibrations, thuds, molecular movements, in rhythmical succession; these are transmitted by the electric wire to the receiving apparatus at the other end.
With this improved arrangement, sounds were conveyed through a wireto a distance of a hundred and forty-three miles, from Boston to North Conway in New Hampshire.
The undulations in the coil produce a current in the ordinary telegraph wire with which it is placed in connection.
We must first comprehend, however, the mode in which the sonorous transmission through the wire is brought about; for this it is which really constitutes the principle of the telephone.
Ordinary telegraphic coils of insulated wire are applied to the poles of a powerful compound permanent magnet; and in front of these is a thin vibrating diaphragm or membrane, with a metallic contact-piece cemented to it.
He has transmitted the pianoforte sounds of a concert through the wire of an electric telegraph.
A limited amount of success was achieved in July of the present year, through an electric wire connecting two concert-halls in London; but the apparatus requires further development.
You ought to be shot out of a red-hot cannon, through a barbed-wire fence, into hell!
You wire a lot of your friends to come on the train at nine o'clock to-night.
You ought to wire up and down the line to keep a lookout.
If necessary I'll wire for authority to let Turnbull pay off the millhands with railroad checks.
Lake over his shoulder, "you sit down, too, and wire all your conductors about their passengers last night.
Then I want Steele to go to Escondido and wire up to Arcadia that we've got our bear by the tail and want help to turn him loose, and tell Pappy Sanders to send me out some grub or I'll skin him.
The program was that they'd wire down to Escondido to have horses ready for them, come down on Number Six and head him off.
They blow about that wire Julius Caesar sent the Associated Press, but old man Pringle done him up for levity and precision when he wrote us the account of his visit to the Denver carnival.
It would be a shame to take any of the bloom off the unexpected delight of a wire on this hot day, when nothing unusual seemed likely to happen.
Yes, a wire from me will undoubtedly open a way for you to Garth Dalmain's bedside.
He had brought with him a lighted taper and a bit of very fine wire to open the seal of the will.
She had undertaken to weave a web of iron wire about the two musicians, and to watch them as a spider watches a fly caught in the toils; and her reward was to be a tobacconist's license.
And I've got some hay-wire in my war-bag--I never travel without it.
Under Rob's instructions they now lashed two crosspieces on top of the logs, using the wire to bind them fast to each.
A few minutes later, he was talking over the wire to the Emperor in the railway station at Felgarde.
To von Sark I said that particulars bywire concerning the widow of Lord Mowbray and daughter Helen, would put me under personal obligation.
She begged that Lady Mowbray would reconsider; that she would wire to England, instead of going, or at all events that she would wait for one day more, until Leopold's visit to Schloss Lyndalberg should be over.
Find Mr. McVickar and wire him that I've dropped out.
Keep your finger on the pulse of things in town to-day, and arrange with your despatcher to give my operators here a clear wire in any direction whenever it's called for.
That's what Canby thinks, and he asked me to hold the wire open.
On the second day of westward faring the railroad traffic manager, whose business followed him like an implacable Nemesis wherever he went, had wire instructions to stop and confer with his vice-president in the Illinois metropolis.
Then, when you get things fixed, wire me one word to Twin Buttes.
Guess you'd better call up the division despatcher and tell him the broken-wire gag didn't work.
He told Kittredge it was for the good of 'the cause,' and suggested that a wirepurporting to come from Mr. McVickar would probably turn the trick.
Before fastening on the side-pieces bore a hole at the end of each to insert the thick wire which turns the large reel used to wind the cord, and also set in the tacks which support the crane at each side.
Bind this leaf into the first wire stem, and add more leaves if you wish.
The arms and legs must be fastened on to the body with a little wire which should be run through a tiny bead and twisted so that it does not come out.
The rudder suggested here can be made either of wood, or of a double piece of tin with a piece of thick wire hammered in at the fold and left with one end projecting, so that it fits through a hole in the stem and forms a tiller.
Small wire paper clips will do instead if they can be got.
Now with mending yarn make a tassel and fasten it to the end of your hat wire, and wrap the wire all the way up with it almost to the end.
Then take a piece of wire about six inches long, or a hairpin will do if straightened out.
The legs and arms are made of slips of the kid stitched carefully over the flat wire used by milliners.
Fasten arms and legs to the body with a thick wire which works loosely in the holes, or with a thin nail which may be bent over at the point.
The waterwheel has flat blades with no bevelling, and a thick wire is inserted through its axis.
At one end of the wire bend it, so that it makes a little loop, the smaller the better.
More tassels can be made and tied to wires and bound into the main wire stem like little buds.
Hold the ammonia closer to his nose," said Madame Guix, tugging at a wire that served as boot lace.
Gendarmerie at once to see if there was any official news by wire since we had left town.
At the hotel we got the chateau on the wire and asked for the victoria at once.
But the hens had still to be conquered, so the orphans set to work and built around the back yard a lofty fence of wire and laths, borrowed from the sawmill when Sandy McQuarry was away.
The wire door creaked again, Mrs. Munn sailed away, and her son hung himself farther over the window-sill.
Not infrequently the bottom is a wirecloth one instead of wood.
In stratifying chestnuts we keep them between layers of wire mesh, for mice are very fond of these nuts.
For labels for immediate use the wooden ones, painted on one side and with copper wire fastening, are satisfactory.
Morris sometimes uses a heavy wire stake to which he fastens the labels.
The flat usually employed is a shallow, wooden box in which the bottom is provided with ample, narrow drainage cracks and the top covered with wire cloth that will keep out mice or larger rodents.
Attach them by the nurseryman's method, which it has taken me many years to recognize as the right one, by twisting the doubled wire around a convenient object.
The layer of leaves or hay next to the wire cover of the flats assists in the work of uncovering when the inspections are made for the purpose of ascertaining the state of dormancy or germination.
It might be a good idea, in stratifying chestnuts in the box with wire mesh on the bottom, to place the box at an angle that would drain off at least part of the water.
It's a nightingale in the woods, and it'll be singing when all the rest of 'em are still trying to find out where the wire is.
It was prairie land all around and slimly frequented territory, and they had no trouble in rigging up the wire paraphernalia, which they carried alongside a picket fence to the porch of the cottage, and thence upstairs.
Hush led all the way, and pranced under the wire first in a big gallop, pulled double.
Walcott was beaten a head on the wire by the rank outsider in a pretty finish.
I see they hollered an old skate home and got him under the wire first by three lengths out at the Newport merry-go-round the other day," said an old-time trainer out at the Gravesend paddock.
But Soames hastened home, oblivious; his hands trembled as he took the late letters from the giltwire cage into which they had been thrust through the slit in the door.
He determined to wire to his daughter to meet him at Paddington Station.
In this hot weather the window of Mr. Polteed's room was positively open, and the only precaution was a wire gauze, preventing the intrusion of flies.
I couldn’t trust the wire to fetch him now I think of it.
From the cross-bars, guys of galvanizedwire were stretched and secured to heavy rocks, to help sustain the monument from the fury of the storms.
A cradle-shaped support made from biscuit-can wire was hung over the flame about an inch above it, and while the boys heated the irons, I squatted on my knees with a case of alcohol across my lap and got to work.
I shall send a wire to Stanley at once asking for the dates of Emily's birth and marriage.
Stretch a strand or two ofwire above the top and let the vine run along it.
Around the neck of each they fastened a bit of wire and bent it into a hook which fitted into an eye sewed on to the old but pretty white frock which Helen was sacrificing to the good cause.
Mr. Emerson hurried to the telegraph office and sent an immediate wire to "Mrs. Leonard Smith, Rosemont, N.
I tell them that he has been moving about all the time and that probably neither the letter nor the wire reached him, but Clark vows that Hapgood has intercepted them and his sisters are sure the boy is ill or has been murdered.
We could lace boughs back and forth between the palings and make the fence higher, and on the other two sides borrow or buy some wide chicken wire from the hardware store and make that eye-proof with branches.
I might as well wire Stanley to send us right off the date of Emily Leonard's birth, and, just as soon as he finds it, the name of the man she married.
That worthy looked somewhat startled at the encounter, but pulled himself together and said cheerfully "Just been sending off a wire about our matter.
You can make a top for a bowl of any size by cutting chicken wire to suit your needs.
A suit of green striped in two shades fitted him tightly, and over his head he carried his pulpit, a wire frame covered with the same material of which his clothes were made.
He rumpled one elaborate hat stuck in the back of a seat, and one silk tie that had fallen out of the wire rack he kicked under the row ahead.
I hope to God he breaks a leg or rips himself open on barbed wire or something.
Oxide of copper exposed upon platinum wire to the inmost flame (the blue flame), communicates to the external flame a green color.
If the chloride is insoluble in water, it must be rendered soluble by fusion upon a platinum wire with soda, and then treated as above.
Behavior with Borax on Platinum wire in the oxidizing flame: Colors the glass of an intense smalt blue both whilst hot and when cold.
Metallic bismuth is converted, when exposed upon platinum wire to the flame of oxidation, into a dark brown oxide, which turns light yellow while cooling.
But if the substance experimented upon consists of earthly ingredients or metallic oxides, the platinum wire is the best.
Behavior with Borax on Platinum wirein the oxidizing flame.
By exposing soda or its compounds upon a platinumwire to the blue flame, a reddish-yellow color is communicated to the external flame, which appears as a long brilliant stream and considerably increased in volume.
If the telluric acid be placed upon platinum wire in the reduction flame, the oxidation flame is colored green.
Microcosmic Salt dissolves oxides of lead upon platinum wire in the flame of oxidation easily to a clear, colorless bead, which appears, when highly saturated, yellow while hot.
Instead, she threw off her big coat, and, drawing the chair to the corner farthest from the stove, seated herself there and with hands that shook took up the local newspaper which was the live wire between Burke and the outer world.
Over the hotel wire Sonya's colorful tones held enough surprise to remind Laurie that he could hardly hope that even Rodney's budding romance would drive him to the side of the lady so early in the morning.
He loves to sit on a telegraph wire or other exposed perch, and thence make sallies into the air after flying insects.
This species loves to sit on a telegraph wire or at the very summit of a tree and pour forth its song, which consists of a pleasant, if somewhat harsh, trill or warble of a dozen or more notes.
From this engraving (made from a photograph) our readers may obtain a clear idea of the Thibaudier sounding apparatus, and understand how the wheel over which the wire runs is set in motion by the Brothergood engine.
During the operation of sounding, the boat is kept immovable by means of its engine, so that the wireshall remain as vertical as possible.
The apparatus automatically registers the number of meters of wire that is paid out, and as soon as the sounding lead touches bottom, it at once stops of itself.
Illustration] Here is a magnet partly wound which was used in one of our earliest experiments, but which was a failure on account of having far too much mass in the core in comparison with the amount of copper wire wound round it.
The core should be thin and long and of the horseshoe type; the amount of wire wound round it should be large in comparison with the size of the core.
In laboratory experiments a good conducting ore is electrolyzed by suspension from a platinum wire in connection with the source of electricity, and is then immersed in the bath.
A small spiral piece of iron wire ignited at the point, and suddenly plunged into a jar of oxygen, burns with great brilliancy and rapidity.
It is powdered by simply rubbing it through a wire sieve.
The wire for this purpose should be 'annealed,' and not resilient.
The subjoined is a drawing of the gauze burner, which is an open cylinder with wire gauze at the top.
It easily decomposes water, and will heat an iron wire 8 inches in length and a 25th of an inch in diameter to redness.
In the Gramme machine the electro-magnet consists of a ring composed of soft iron wire attached to a horizontal spindle or axis, which latter is turned by an endless strap revolving on a pulley.
A coil of fine platinum wire is slipped over the wick of a spirit lamp, the greater part being raised above the cotton; the lamp is supplied with ether or alcohol, lighted for a moment and then blown out.
For about two thirds of its surface the wire cylinder is surrounded by curved iron bars, there being just sufficient space left between these curved iron bars and the wire cylinder to allow of its free rotation.
A button of pure metal is thus obtained, the traces of carbon and silicon present in the wire having been removed by the oxygen of the black oxide.
