"Microphone" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and when the end of the telephone was applied to a microphone the room fairly rang with exultant cheers, and those looking through a kintograph (visual telegraph) terminating in a camera obscura on the shores of Baffin Bay were able to see engineers and workmen waving and throwing up their caps ...
— A Journey in Other Worlds - A Romance of the Future • John Jacob Astor
... his microphone and called the control tower at Kirtland AFB and reported what he and his crew had seen. The tower relayed the message ...
— The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects • Edward Ruppelt
... Mr. Chadwick. "Now then, as you also know the wire telephone works by a metal disc in the receiver, vibrating in exactly the same way as does the microphone in the transmitter. According to the vibrations of the voice of the person sending the spoken message, the electric current along the wire, acted upon by the microphone in the transmitter, increases or decreases. This increasing and decreasing ...
— The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone • Richard Bonner
... Kedo's voice rasped into the captain's microphone. "Attention, all personnel! Master Captain Sawtelle orders take-off in two minutes. The countdown will begin at five seconds.... Five! Four! Three! Two! ...
— Masters of Space • Edward Elmer Smith |
