A practical Treatise on Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony, giving Complete and Detailed Explanations of the Theory and Practice of Modern Radio Apparatus and its Present Day Applications, together with a chapter on the possibilities of its Future Development
WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY
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shaped piece of carbon. A second cup is mounted in a
rigid position directly in back of the first. The space be-
tween is filled with small polished granules of carbon.
Fig. 131.—Diagram of a telephone transmitter.
When these are in a perfectly free and loose state their
resistance to an electric current is very great, and they
allow almost none to flow.
When slightly compressed their resistance is greatly low-
ered, and they permit the current to pass. The vibrations
of the diaphragm exert a varying pressure upon the gran-
Fig. 132.—Diagram showing the principle and construction of the
telephone receiver.
ules, with a corresponding variation in their resistance and
the amount of current flowing.
The receiver, as has already been explained, consists of
a thin iron disk, placed very near but not quite touching
the end of a small bar of steel, permanently magnetized,
about which is wound a coil of fine insulated wire. The