"Microphone" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... now being established with a microphone secreted in the base of the brass lamp on the study table, three floors below, and the perforated side of the microphone detector serving as an earpiece, one could hear every word uttered ...
— Red Masquerade • Louis Joseph Vance
... a Miss Dibble, is downstairs, where her typewriter will not bother. Yes, put that down, too, Miss Dibble; I want people to know everything! She has a telephone clamped to her ears, and I am talking into a microphone which is fixed to a stand on ...
— The Blind Spot • Austin Hall and Homer Eon Flint
... speed rose—reached fifteen miles a second. The sun's pull became steadily more powerful; they were falling toward the fiery sphere, away from the Earth. A microphone recessed in the outer wall brought them the fading whisper of air from outside. ...
— The Black Star Passes • John W Campbell
... he turned over his precious pictures to the photographic department for development than Overton rushed him to a microphone, and made him repeat his experience for the ...
— Spawn of the Comet • Harold Thompson Rich
... know by whom invented—is an improved microphone, by which the revolutions of a propeller are not only heard, but the direction also is indicated, while the force of the under-water sound-waves are translated on an indicator in terms of proximity. The great drawback to this is that the submarines are also ...
— Our Navy in the War • Lawrence Perry |
