Home-made Electrical ApparatusMorgan, Alfred Powell
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Home-made Electrical Apparatus
Morgan, Alfred Powell
Electric apparatus and appliances -- Amateurs' manuals
The lines of force will travel through and about coil B and *induce in
it a current of electricity*. The electric current will cause a sound
like a click in the telephone receiver. When a telephone transmitter is
substituted for the key and words are spoken into the mouthpiece, the
current passing through the coil from the battery will be varied in
accordance with the vibrations of the voice. The changes in the current
will produce changes in the magnetic field set up by the coil and the
changes in the magnetic field will produce a varying current in the coil
B so that the words will be distinctly repeated by the receiver
connected to B.
[Illustration: FIG. 182.—Illustrating the Principle of the Induction
Wireless Telephone.]
This experiment is very easy to perform and may be carried out by almost
any boy with the materials he probably already has around his shop.
Twenty-five to thirty turns of magnet wire of almost any size wound
around one end of a cardboard tube three or four inches in diameter will
serve as the coil A. A similar coil wound around the tube five or six
inches away, an ordinary telephone transmitter and receiver and two or
three dry cells form all the rest of the equipment desired. Words spoken
into the transmitter connected to the coil A will be distinctly heard in
the telephone receiver connected to the coil B, although there is no
connection between the two coils other than the *magnetic field*. Such
an outfit as this is of course only experimental and intended solely for
the purpose of demonstrating the principles of operation of the larger
outfit. If it is desired to make a practical set for talking over a
considerable distance it will be necessary to make coils much larger in
diameter and to build them so they contain a larger number of turns.
[Illustration: FIG. 183.—Showing how the Coils may be formed by winding
around nails set in a circle in the Floor.]
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