Fig 7 Le Telephone by T du Moncel Paris 1880 (Large)
A tin can phone is a type of acoustic (non-electrical) speech-transmitting device made up of two tin cans, paper cups or similarly shaped items attached to either end of a taut string or wire.
It is a particular case of mechanical telephony, where sound (i.e., vibrations in the air) is converted into vibrations along a liquid or solid medium. These vibrations are transmitted through the medium (string) and then converted back to sound.
is attributed to him as early as 1667. The highly similar acoustic tincantelephone, or 'lover's phone', has also been known for centuries. It connects...
earliest mechanical telephones were based on sound transmission through pipes or other physical media. The acoustic tincantelephone, or "lovers' phone"...
building a product which he code named "TinCan," a reference to the tincantelephone made by children using two tincans and a string. This new team and the...
Kong. The telephone number for emergency services – Police, Fire Service and Ambulance – is 999 for all telephone lines. These numbers can also be used...
classic example is the tincantelephone, a children's toy made by connecting the two ends of a string to the bottoms of two metal cans, paper cups or similar...
user, to be permanently associated with the two endpoints. A child's tincantelephone is one example of a physical dedicated channel. Using circuit-switching...
waves on a transmission line. Waves on a string, like the ones in a tincantelephone, are a simple example of an acoustic waveguide. Another example are...
Headphones History of the telephone Intercom Megaphone Pipe (fluid conveyance) Pneumatic tube Stethoscope Tincantelephone "Voicepipes and Speaking-Tubes"...
Anchor escapement for clock making is invented by Robert Hooke. 1667 A tincantelephone is devised by Robert Hooke. 1668 Sir Isaac Newton invents the first...
son, Chase. They made tincantelephones to communicate with each other, and the last time that she saw him, she took her can with her so that they could...
introduced by English Postmaster General Henry Bishop (1611–1691/2). 1667: Tincantelephone, a device that conveyed sounds over an extended wire by mechanical...
specialising in Film, TV, Video Games and viral campaign industries. 2017 Tin-CanTelephone Literary Agency Cassian Hall http://tctliteraryagency.com Literary...
communicating through various means: tincantelephone, rotary dial telephone, phone booth, cordless telephone, and cellphone. Voiceovers by Jhong, Kim...
Publications, 2006) ISBN 1-58767-162-X – Novella collection that includes: TinCanTelephone, Miss Henry's Bottles, Blood Ledge, and Cold River Untcigahunk: Stories...
stupid as he first appears. He can grasp scientific concepts but lacks the patience to understand a concept fully. He can also invent many different types...
being retained after the thing named has changed (e.g., tincan, mince meat pie, steamroller, tin foil, clothes iron, digital darkroom). This is essentially...
The red telephone box, is a telephone kiosk for a public telephone designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, the architect responsible for Liverpool Cathedral...
can be located at TIN website. It is now very easy to apply online using Aadhaar based eSignature at Protean's (formerly NSDL e-Gov) website. One can...
star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame—the others being silent-film stars Rin TinTin, Uggie and Strongheart. In 2005, the show business journal Variety named...
mobile home; Allan Wallis; David Thornburg (Galloping Bungalows), and the TinCan Tourists in 1919; Randall Henderson; Glenn Curtiss Aerocar; Arthur Sherman...
major subsidiary PCCW-HKT Telephone Limited (Chinese: 香港電話有限公司), which was incorporated in 1925 under the name Hongkong Telephone Company, Limited; it was...
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