27 adjectives to describe telephoning

"But how can a common wireless telephone" "It's another kind of a wireless.

She was moving in the direction of the nearest telephone, but she said over her shoulder: "Oh, well, I think you did pretty well for yourself when you chose Mama.

As far back as 1860 a German scientist named Philipp Reis produced a musical telephone that even transmitted a few imperfect words.

At that time "hello boys" held sway in the crude telephone exchanges, the "hello girl" having not yet appeared.

" "Perhaps we had better telephone," suggested Betty.

The early life of Alexander Graham Bell was full of color, and I have told the story of his patient investigations of human speech and hearing, which, finally culminated in a practical telephone.

It is of peculiar interest to recall the fact that the first words ever transmitted by the electric telephone were spoken in a building at Boston, not far from where Benjamin Franklin first saw the light.

They had a fine feast, but the greatest fun of all was just before they went to bed, when Bushy Tail took from his bag a little telephone.

When the diving compartment is in use the man on lookout duty uses a portable telephone to tell his shipmates in the main room what is happening out in the wet, and by the same means the reports of the diver can be communicated without opening the air-lock.

Its mode of construction is based upon a theoretic conception of the lines of force, which its inventor explains as follows in his Elementary Treatise on Electricity: "To every position of the disk of a magnetic telephone with respect to the poles of the magnet there corresponds a certain distribution of the lines of force, which latter shift themselves when the disk is vibrating.

The Green Mouse sorts out, identifies, and intercepts the young man's own particular current, hitches his subconscious self to it, and zip!he's at one end of an invisible telephone and the only girl on earth is at the other....

Lanyard's speculations were interrupted by the peremptory telephone.

The Daily Telegraph says of the Portsmouth Corporation telephone system: "At present there are 1,899 subscribers and 2,528 distinct telephones.

To mention one or two which may be interesting on account of the oddity of their methodthere was, for instance, an early device, similar in principle to the calling apparatus of the automatic telephone, which involved the turning of a movable disk so that a projection on its circumference pointed successively to the letters to be transmitted.

By means of this primitive telephone we talked as long as we dared.

Alexander Graham Bell was one of these prophetic inventorsthe telephone was his invention, not his discovery.

They adored Mr. Edison as the greatest man of all time in every possible department of science, art and philosophy, and execrated Mr. Graham Bell, the inventor of the rival telephone, as his Satanic adversary; but each of them had (or pretended to have) on the brink of completion, an improvement on the telephone, usually a new transmitter.

It is all very well to talk about the blessings of the rural telephone, rural free delivery, and the automobile.

Then, as he waited again, with the singular telephone in hand, he growled savagely: "By Allah!

All the obvious channels have been stoppedthe telephones hidden in French cellars, the signals given by the hands of clocks, the German spies dressed in uniforms stripped from our dead, and so on.

After each shot a man who sat with a telephone strapped about his head called out corrections of the range, in figures that were just a meaningless jumble to me, although they made sense to the men who listened and changed the pointing of the guns at each order.

The candles were white with blue bell-shaped shades, and at each person's plate as a favor stood one of the tiny glass telephones seen in candy stores, full of candies.

One cannot perfect a transcontinental telephone line nor a transatlantic wireless telephone in a garret.

Transcontinental wireless telephone, 257.

But the number of this upstairs telephone was not in the public book.

27 adjectives to describe  telephoning