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XI. A selective hot-wire microphone W. S. Tucker, D. Sc., A. R. C. Sc., E. T. Paris, M. Sc. (Lond.) Published 1 January 1921. DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1921.0011 Article Info & Metrics eLetters
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1 January 1921
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Volume 221, issue 582-593
The instrument described in the following paper provides:— (i) A convenient means of detecting a note of given pitch when other sounds are present; and (ii) A method of estimating the relative intensities of
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sounds of the same pitch. The idea which formed the starting-point for the construction of the instrument—viz., the placing of an electrically heated grid of fine platinum wire in the orifice of an otherwise closed vessel—was
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originally employed by one of us (W. S. T.) in the construction of a sound-
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detector for the use of Sound Ranging Sections in the British Army. In its
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original form, the detector was intended to respond to heavily damped
aerial vibrations, such as those produced by the firing of guns. Further
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experiments, however, showed that the detector could be tuned to respond to any continuous sound of definite frequency by suitably Article
choosing the dimensions of the vessel and its orifice.
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