Telephony
[təˈlefəni] or [tə'lɛfəni]
Definition
(n.) The art or process of reproducing sounds at a distance, as with the telephone.
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Examples
- American youths to-day are given, if of a mechanical turn of mind, to amateur telegraphy or telephony, but seldom, if ever, have to make any part of the system constructed. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The engineer in telephony cannot increase his motive power. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The advance that was brought about by Edison's carbon transmitter will be more apparent if we glance first at the state of the art of telephony prior to his invention. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- So far as the writers can ascertain this is the first example of field telephony. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The ranks are well filled everywhere, and of late years the telegraph as an art or industry has shown relatively slight expansion, owing chiefly to the development of telephony. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It is believed that wireless telephony will form a most important adjunct and extension to the existing schemes of communication. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- During the year 1915 very notable development in radio-telephony, the transmission of speech without wires, was made. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Such broad use is made of the telephone service of America that the progress in telephony is an essential factor in all American progress. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- For many reasons wireless telephony can never take the place of wire systems, but it may be expected to supplement them in a useful manner. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Without these, modern telephony would not and could not exist. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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