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carbon button

carbon button

[¦kär·bən ¦bət·ən]
(electronics)
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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He needed something that would be very sensitive, responding to the human voice and making a current change." In this work he recalled the glass tube-carbon powder configuration he had discarded several years before and created the carbon button, a transmitter that is used in today's telephones.
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