Switchboard
['swɪtʃbɔːd] or ['swɪtʃbɔrd]
Definition
(noun.) telephone central where circuits are completed with patchcords.
Typed by Justine--From WordNet
Examples
- The copper wires connecting the instruments to the switchboard were small, crystallized, and rotten. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The switchboard for manipulating the wires was about thirty-four inches square. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This has been accomplished through the invention of the multiple switchboard and a great number of inventions and improvements in all the apparatus used in the transmission of speech. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Then he proceeded to pull the switchboard away from the wall. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In each one is introduced a pyrometer, connected electrically with a switchboard located in a separate building. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- This switchboard is very similar to those used in telephone exchanges. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Nor was there a central switchboard! Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- For this purpose, see Fig. 63, a continuous switchboard is arranged along the side of a large room and occupies most of that side of the wall. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In addition, stock tickers, telephones, telephone switchboards, and typewriters were made the Hammond typewriters were perfected and made there. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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