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Definition of Audiphones
1. audiphone [n] - See also: audiphone
Lexicographical Neighbors of Audiphones
Literary usage of Audiphones
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Histories of American Schools for the Deaf, 1817-1893 by Volta Bureau (U.S.), Edward Allen Fay (1893)
"During the school year of 1881-'2 a number of audiphones were presented to the
... During the latter part of the year the use of the audiphones was almost ..."
2. Wisconsin Journal of Education by Wisconsin Education Association Council, Wisconsin Education Association, Wisconsin Dept. of Public Instruction (1887)
"By placing close over the ears of the operator two audiphones, the machine will
distinctly re-articulate to the operator whatever has been dictated to it. ..."
3. Voice, Song and Speech: A Practical Guide for Singers and Speakers; from the by Lennox Browne (1884)
"... Hearing Tubes and Trumpets, audiphones of various descriptions, as well as
All kinds of Surgical Instruments, Apparatus and Bandages, Waterbeds and ..."
4. A Pioneer Outline History of Northwestern Pennsylvania: Embracing the by William James McKnight (1905)
"... no electric lights, no anaesthetics and painless surgery, no gun-cotton, no
nitroglycerine, no dynamite, giant powder, audiphones, pneumatic tubes, ..."
5. A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of the Ear: Including a Sketch of Aural by Daniel Bennett St. John Roosa (1891)
"As yet, hearing-trumpets and the audiphones must be carefully tested by the
patient himself before it can be certainly known that he will be materially ..."
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