Transmitter
[trænz'mɪtə;trɑːnz-;-ns-] or [træns'mɪtɚ]
Definition
(n.) One who, or that which, transmits; specifically, that portion of a telegraphic or telephonic instrument by means of which a message is sent; -- opposed to receiver.
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Examples
- 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.
- With the judges, a group of famous scientific men, and the Emperor’s suite for audience, Bell went to the transmitter at the other end of the wire, while Dom Pedro put the receiver to his ear. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- A typical form of his transmitter, see Fig. 55, was a box covered with a vibrating membrane E, and provided with a mouth-piece at one side. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The telephone clicked, and Archer, turning from the photographs, unhooked the transmitter at his elbow. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The receiving instrument at the other end of the line was constructed upon much the same general lines as the transmitter, consisting of a metallic drum and reels for the paper tape. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- And he preferred Ursula to be there, as a sort of transmitter to Gudrun. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He discarded the original porte-rule and type of the transmitter for the key or lever, moved up and down by hand to complete or break the circuit. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- This apparatus was called the microphone, and was in reality but one of the many forms that it is possible to give to the telephone transmitter. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In Fig. 6 one transmitter is shown as closed, at A, while the other one is open. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Then the Western Union came out with Edison’s new telephone transmitter, which increased the value of the telephone tenfold, and which in fact made it almost a new instrument. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Again, in experimenting on the telephone, I had to improve the transmitter so I could hear it. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- For instance, the complex problem of a practical telephone transmitter gave rise to a series of most exhaustive experiments. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- That Reis’ transmitter did alternately make and break the circuit, seems clear from his own memoir. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Having no other man I could spare at that time, I sent him over with my carbon transmitter telephone to exhibit it in England. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I started in, and soon produced the carbon transmitter, which is now universally used. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Not perhaps as an originative people, but as transmitters of knowledge and method their influence upon the world's history has been enormous. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We ought to have portable short wave transmitters. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The host of men who stand between a great thinker and the average man are not automatic transmitters. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- These little cakes were delicately packed away between layers of cotton in small, light boxes and shipped to Bergmann in New York, by whom the telephone transmitters were being made. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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