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Show A WOMAN Invented This Telephone With Combined Receiver and Transmitter Trans-mitter That Leaves Both Hands Free for Work COMBINATION ol receiver and trans milter of a telephone has been accomplished by Rosa V. Hatch o! Memphis, Teun. She hears and speaks wltt the sane device with out the necessity ol holding the receiver and the conversatioi: 1s private. Her device says the Populai Science Monthly should find favor will) business men. The receiver If mounted where the transmitter Is generally gener-ally placed on other telephones, while the transmitter Is scoured directly In front of the receiver. The receiver alsc differs from the ordinary ordi-nary In that It contains con-tains a horn large enough to throw the sound forward a distance dis-tance of about twelve Inches. The transmitter trans-mitter Is directly In front of the receiver. RKtlVERHCW S i : IP TRANSMITTER WMF The new combination telephone in use. Note that the ' girl has both hands free for her writing. but with Its rear end toward It, so that there Is little chance of the speaker's voice repeating repeat-ing Into his own receiver. When starting a conversation a button Is pressed to connect the Instruments with the telephone lines ; and then, by talking and listening close up to the hood which Incloses the instruments, the conversation may be private. In this way the operation of the telephone tele-phone is made much more convenient, although al-though the essential construction of each Instrument has not been changed. |