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单词 stentorophonic trumpet
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stentorophonic trumpet
1. stentorophonic horn, stentorophonic trumpet, stentorophonic tube: a speaking trumpet. Obsolete.
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trunk1546
speaking-trumpet1671
stentorophonic tube1686
whispering-trumpet1688
stentorian trumpet1690
trumpet1696
voice pipe1839
voice tube1839
whispering-tube1857
speaking-tube1889
megaphone1896
meg1937
loudhailer1941
bullhorn1955
1671 S. Morland (title) Tuba stentoro-phonica.
1684 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 14 481 For if the Stentoro-phonecon..does such great feats, what might be done [etc.].
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 96 He has Loud Trumpets made as big, and like our Stentoro-Phonica, or speaking Trumpet.]
1686 Philos. Trans. 1685 (Royal Soc.) 15 1185 He writes of..Stentoreophonic Tubes, the invention of which he justly ascribes to Sr Samuel Morland.a1704 T. Brown Walk round London in 3rd Vol. Wks. (1708) iii. 19 The spirit speaks in them, they are but the Stentonorophonic Tubes.1710 R. Steele & J. Addison Tatler No. 257. ⁋2 There was an Organ,..a Stentorophonick-Trumpet.1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. iv. iii. 130 Of this Stentorophonick Horn of Alexander, there is a Figure preserved in the Vatican.1796 S. Vince Princ. Hydrostat. xi. 139 Sound is conveyed to the greatest distance by a trumpet, called a speaking or stentorophonic trumpet.1803 T. Cavallo Elements Nat. or Exper. Philos. II. 312 Hence arises the effect of the speaking trumpet, or stentorophonic tube.1811–31 J. Bentham Lang. in Wks. (1843) VIII. 313/2, 1. Instruments whereby increase is given to the diffusion of audible and evanescent signs:—1. Stentorophic [sic] tubes.
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