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TRYING TO PERFECT THE TELEPHONE. WORK IN BELL TELEPHONE LABORATORIES.
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MAY 4th, 1929.
THE SEA.
PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT.
into a small drum where it is con- THE PRACTICAL JOKER. TEN YEARS UNDER nected to a battery and meters, alid where it is tipped over in va rious directions to imitate the ne- tlons of any careless talker who awings. his transmitter about while telephoning.
Quiet Rooms,
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RAISING OF BATTLESHIP KAISER.
Another ex-German warship is
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The action of the carbon parti- The path of the practical joker cles in the transmitter, at what-is always besut by difficulties, eyer angle, is measured by elec-sually well deserved, but few ex-on the surface once more, after trie nieters. As long as this is onents of the art can have come nearly ten years at the bottom of a greater cropper than the Vienn- the se. This is the battleship kept within certain defined limits, esp, Herr Mayer, who endeavoured Kaiser, which has been lying keel the transmitter is passed as good by curious means to secure a full jupwards in seventy-two feet of for use. But let the needle make a house for his wife's first concert water at Scapa Flow since she was sudden jump out of the way, and in Berlin. This gentleman insert-scuttled by her officers and crew The apparatus is discarded as ajet nu advertisement in the news on June 21, 1919. "frying" nuisance.
papers to the effect that a young The work of raising her has
of great! Work with ordinary telephon and pretty Viennese, Franzmitters needn't be very ex-wealth, desired a husband, the een carried out by Messra. Cox act for ordinary conversation. But essential conditions being a kind and Dunks of London, in record heart. Each applicant was in time. Operations began on Aug. when it comes to transmitter speed that the lady, would sit in last year, and, in spite of being like the brondvæst microphone, exaciness has to be brought to the the front-row of the stalls with interrupted for two months by bunch of white roses in her hand, bad weather, were completed in highest possible extreme.
but when the night of the concert mail week. The battleship that! lawned such lady appeared, was once the pride of the Kaiser's || hough the stalls were filled with fleet is now a rusty, barnacled, and So, to check these sensitive inwo hundred powdered and per-mussel-crusted hulk, which will be truments, there ire
several fumed beans who considered they towed away and broken up.
Some of her sister ships of the quiet rooms" in the Bell Tel-alled "the condition. The sequel phone Laboratories, all thickly was that the kind-hearted ones ex-German navy, including the packed with a sound-absorbingatarted a free fight among them-23,000-ton battle-erulser Moltke,: material and double locked. Triple selves and the concert was wreck- have already undergone that fate. steel doors are balled' within and ed. Hundreds were arrested and Workmen with sledge hammers all joints are cushioned with the good musician instead of beland oxy-acetylqué apparatus, cut sponge rubber pads to keep uoisejuy grateful to her husband turned through the armour, plates as if waste paper. The Jo him in fury and now threatens they were and vibration out of the roonis.
divorce. In the meantime, all the metal is then melted down and Here a man sets up a standard proceeds from the box office she recast to other uses-girders for part in the raising of these war- ships. She is Mrs. Cox, a member another young man is talking into range of the human voie and the auid or pitch which is taken up distributed ammig the disappoint-[picture houses,
varying sounds that it emits. by the microphong, and repro-lad two hundred. This was dis-fittings, and a variety of forms far of the salvage firm, and was In a' noiseprost room lined with a telephone transmitter,
duced through # look father's shoe-bench) packings of soft sound-absorbing
sensitive re-inelly sporting of the lady but, removed from all memory of battle formerly Miss Danks, of Glasgow. She has now spent nearly Ave Ireiver. The reproduced sonni alwe cannot imagine that lerriand the sea. material and locked by friple-steek out, „Joe Tonk father's shoe-bench|1.
Those two sentences that are then checked against the emitted. Mayer found the action geothing, A woman has played a prominent years at Scapa Flow. doors, a young man is seated with out."
"My husband and I had no Two telephone reveivers at his right. "She was waiting at my lawn, repeated almost, incesantly sound for pitch as a measure of which provides yet another ex-
not haphazard pronouncements Ireness in the microphone, mple of the fratism that the beat a hundred others equally futile, experience in salvage, beyond She was walling at my lawn"
inid schemes of nice and men gang When, ng in the case of Herr breaking up a couple of old battle- Every half animates or so he
And so on, repeatedly, in one They include every syllable that,
Similar tests are unde with va-i shiffs fram bone' receiver to an monatonons drone, t one unit buy been found, is dißeult toi
Gransmit by telephone. If these rious types of loudspeaks-aft agley. Practical joking is Mayer the tables are turned the ships, when we came here to take rarely funny except to the uri victims exact their full measurce this job over," she said to a press ofler, listening through much, then changing rate,
"ones and "exponential" horns' es-,
inator, and as he is usually fechte of vengeance, for nothing amuses representative whom she showed operates a metered instrument in This is one of the unromantic, are understand through
janiuded it takes little to amuse the world more than to see the over the firm's plant at Lyness. front of him and makes a note on jobs that have to be done day after relver as well as they are through peetally.
With the equipment on band him. Most people get over the biter bit, and the practical joker
"Since then we have Talsed a 'klip of paper.
day by the men in, the Bell Tele-the other, which happens to bej
For the for use in these quiet rooms, the habit when they pass the "fa" made to taste his own medicine, twenty-six destroyers and two He takes another receiver, con- Phone Laboratories here, in order, the basic instrument nerfs if the instrument after to assure us of a perfect telephone, check, the one being tested drop of a pin on the floor cond stage in school, but others retain Usually he does not like it for it battle-eraisors, the Seydlitz and.
constant finds amusement in the practical laying aside one of the two used, system. They are foiling day in passed as a standard instrument be picked up by a sensitive miere- throughout their lives and be is not often that the mind which the Milite
for use in one of the telephone phone, amplified and reproduced me
firritation to their
Mrs. Cox leats, perhaps, the friends. joke is at the same time possessed and goes" through the same me and day out at one little effort.
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these that the of a genuine sense of humour., In hardest and most unusual fe of tions: swinging both hack and forth to the same ear. sciences, one of the greatest in the This is just one of the test lat one time. The clatter on thei commercial catalogues of big this one instance, however, one has any woman in the British Isles. The room is extremely quiet, ex- try, the telephone, is telephone receivers are put to, hehusy street outside can't penetrate uropean firms contain pages a sneaking sympathy for the While the ships are being raised spends whole days on the stantly being improved for our
of illustrated devices, such as the Viennese. At least he "meant she rept for the hint of a monotonous benefit. In the ease presented, for fore being put to use. Another in their walls. voice coming frêu the receivers,
They are paradox to the instink bomb, the fake camera from well," than which there is no more half-submerged hulks and doing Instance, rercivers are tested na teresting fest, done in the same!
what is called ordinate mixture of noises of New which a wirespring snake flies out damning indictment in the English her full share in directing the Monetoneus Drone.
accurately as an attuned human laboratory, is
anil hits the pisser in the face, and language. far off, jer can go, so that they raver. The "burning." The transmitter is put York.
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In this sound-proof room in the Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York, sounita that rannél be heard by the human er are caught and recorded by the delicate instrument at the left. In this instance, the new type of exponential horn, right, built according to a mathematical formula based on "compound interest," is being tested.
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EASTERTIDE IN THE COUNTRY. A peaceful country scene off the busy main road from London to Portsmouth, which was thronged with motorisis making the most of the fine weather of the first day of the Easter holdiday. Our pleture shows a field being rolled
at Ripley, Surrey, after it had been sown with oats. Farmers are busy, making up arrears of work due to the prolonged winter. (Times copyright),
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