10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SPEAKING TUBE»
Discover the use of
speaking tube in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
speaking tube and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Doctor's
Speaking Tube...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Katherine Dooris Sharp, 2012
A speaking tube is a metal tube with a funnel at each end which will pass sound
waves in either direction through the air inside, fig. 21.5. Sound will travel through
a bent tube, being totally internally reflected at the inside surfaces of the metal ...
THE SPEAKING TUBE ended with a porcelain mouthpiece. The tubes generally
emerged near light- switches, pushbuttons , or under the annunciator itself. Some
mouthpieces had a spring door and a whistle inside, so that blowing into the ...
Speaking-tube whistles and mouthpieces are found in ivory, bone, plastic and a
variety of woods including lignum vitae, with the visible tubing covered with
coloured braiding. For nautical use they were made in plated or unplated brass,
and in ...
5
Medical Speech-Language Pathology: A Practitioner's Guide
Disadvantages: There are certain disadvantages to talking tracheostomy tubes
that clinicians should be aware of when instructing patients and caregivers in
their use: 1. The exterior speaking tube or the fenestrations in the tube may
become ...
Alex F. Johnson, Barbara H. Jacobson, 2011
In spite of ear-splitting airplane noises, the pilot hears plainly what the observer
says through this speaking-tube Designed to carry bombs to drop on Berlin, this
airplane is easily transformed into a commercial airplane. The multiple motors of
...
Don Wilkinson Oakland, Calif Speaking tube mouthpiece with a whistle (Trout
Hardware Co. 1907). OLD-HOUSE INTERCOMS LIKE YOURS were common
from the 1850s to the early 1900s, especially in large houses, and where
servants ...
8
Hearing Things: Religion, Illusion, and the American ...
sions was just that sort of speaking tube to which Voltaire alluded. As Delia
Porta's description of a speaking statue suggested, the use of pipes for the
conveyance of voices was a standard in natural magic, and Bacon incorporated
such ...
HYDROPHONE STATIONS LINKED BY RADIO TO EXCHANGE
OBSERVATIONS, PERMITTING LOCATION OF SURVIVORS 8Y TRl ANGUL
ATION A NATURAL speaking tube thousands of -^"*- feet below the sea will soon
summon help for ...
10
Oxford American Handbook of Critical Care
Should be switched to a fixed flange when possible to avoid dislodgement of the
tracheotomy tube. Pitt speaking tube A non fenestrated, cuffed tube for
continuous mechanical ventilation and airway protection with a port to direct
airflow above ...
John Kellum Professor of Critical Care University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Scott Gunn Assistant Professor of Critical Care University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Director Mervyn Singer Senior Lecturer in Intensive Care Medicine, Bloomsbury Institute of Intensive Care Medicine University College London Medical School, 2007
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SPEAKING TUBE»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
speaking tube is used in the context of the following news items.
1000 pieces of motoring history
Comes fitted with speaking tube so that passengers in the closed rear compartment can address the driver. Lot 1249, estimate £350,000-£450,000. «Telegraph.co.uk, Jun 14»
Practical acoustic thermometry: a new way to measure reactor temps?
The concept of 'speaking tubes' in the noisy environment of a steam engine was realised early on in the industrial revolution. Examples can be seen for example ... «Nuclear Engineering, Mar 14»
Can You Hear Me Now? Sound Technology of the 19th Century
That speaking tube is still there, and drew the curiosity of acoustician William Elliott, who conducted a series of measurements to determine the quality of the ... «Scientific American, Jul 12»
