speaking tube

Noun

Meaning

a tube for conveying the sound of a voice from one room to another

Source: WordNet

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speaking-tube

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Field, 2011, pp. 38, 46 Quarstein, 2010, pp. 181, 191 The speaking tube used to communicate between the pilothouse and the turret had broken early in the action so Keeler and captain's clerk Daniel Toffey had to relay commands from Worden to Greene. Source: Internet

The commemorative model transmitter was a thin mirror cemented to a short aluminum speaking tube, and its receiver was a silicon solar cell and audio amplifier, both installed in a lantern light housing. Source: Internet

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