Lesson 21 Flashcards
When you cup your hand behind the ear, sound
increase by 5-8 dB
The first patent for a telephone type hearing instrument was
1892
The first electric hearing instrument
collected and amplified sound
The carbon granule microphone
caused static and fading with body movement
Desk and suitcase sized hearing instruments, popular in the 1920’s had more gain and clarity because of
vacuum tube amplifiers
Wearable instruments were a result of
the miniature vacuum tube
Crystal microphones and receivers
are very fragile
A FET changed the high impedance problems of the
ceramic microphone
Magnetic microphones
have a godd frequency response in the speech range
The miniature vacuum tube was introduced in about
1938