"Long-distance" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the Galland library, where the long-distance telephone was installed, Westerling was talking with the premier in ...
— The Last Shot • Frederick Palmer
... find ourselves there with not a little amazement. It will be our first experience of the swift long distance travel of Utopia, and I have an idea—I know not why—that we should make the journey by night. Perhaps I think so because the ideal of long-distance travel is surely a restful translation less suitable for ...
— A Modern Utopia • H. G. Wells
... direct contact with line terminal T, which screws into it; D with T^1 through the brass casing, screw S, and a small plate at the back of the transmitter. Voice vibrations compress G G, and allow current to pass more freely from D to C. This form of microphone is very delicate, and unequalled for long-distance transmission. ...
— How it Works • Archibald Williams
... boots and adjusted the military belt. The night was hot and sticky; somewhere, miles to the rear of the base, the batteries of long-distance guns were beginning their nightly serenade. Lance followed the orderly's broad, chunky ...
— Astounding Stories, February, 1931 • Various
... just starting to fix that hasp on the gate to the chicken coop when Minnie came running down from the house to say somebody wanted to speak to me on the telephone. It was a long-distance call and kept me there most half an hour; and what it was all about I don't know now. Some feller I never heard of kept talking and talking, and I couldn't make head nor tail out of anything he said. Finally I told him so and hung up the receiver. I can't imagine who he was. ...
— Walter and the Wireless • Sara Ware Bassett
|
