Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1918 — New Telephone Device. [ARTICLE]

New Telephone Device.

Of the many devices which have from time to time been Introduced for improving the telephone or for permitting the user the free use of his hands, one of the latest, says the Scientific American, appears to be in every way ideal. It consists of a sound chamber over which can be placed the usual telephone receiver, and a bifurcated tube ending in ear pieces. So in uSe the telephone receiver is removed from the hook and placed on the sound chamber, while, the ear pieces are placed in the ears: and the user, talking in the normal tone, can carry on a conversation with a party at the other end of the telephone line without holding the receiver or stand. Furthermore. by splitting the sound and distributing it to the two ears: all exnoises are shut out and the conversation becomes much clearer.