Figure 149 shows a complete telephone ready for mounting on the wall. It
consists of a receiver, telephone transmitter, bell, hook, and
push-button. The bell is mounted on a flat base-board. The transmitter
is similar to that just described, but is built into the front of a
box-like cabinet. The box is fitted with a push-button at the lower
right-hand corner. A simple method of making a suitable push-button is
shown in the upper left-hand part of the illustration. It consists of
two small brass strips arranged so that pushing a small wooden plug
projecting through the side of the cabinet will bring the two strips
together and make an electrical connection.
The "hook" consists of a strip of brass, pivoted at one end with a
round-headed brass wood screw and provided with a small spring, so that
when the receiver is taken off of the hook it will fly up and make
contact with a screw, marked _C_ in the illustration. When the receiver
is on the hook, its weight will draw the latter down against the screw,
_D_. The hook is mounted on the base-board of the telephone, and
projects through a slot cut in the side of the cabinet.
Four binding-posts are mounted on the lower part of the base-board. The
two marked _B_ and _B_ are for the battery.
[Illustration: Fig. 149.—A Complete Telephone Instrument. Two
Instruments such as this are necessary to form a simple Telephone
System.]
That marked _L_ is for the "line," and _G_ is for the ground connection
or the return wire.
[Illustration: Fig. 150.—Diagram of Connection for the Telephone
Instrument shown in Fig. 149.]
The diagram of the connections is shown in Figure 150. The line-wire
coming from the telephone at the other station enters through the
binding-post marked _L_, and then connects to the hook. The lower
contact on the hook is connected to one terminal of the bell. The other
terminal of the bell leads to the binding-post marked _G_, which is
connected to the ground, or to the second line-wire, where two are used.
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