Fessenden oscillator
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title:
Fessenden oscillator
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A Fessenden oscillator is an electro-acoustic transducer invented by Reginald Fessenden, with development starting in 1912 at the Submarine Signal Company of Boston. It was the first successful acoustical echo ranging device. Similar in operating principle to a dynamic voice coil loudspeaker, it was an early kind of transducer, capable of creating underwater sounds and of picking up their echoes. The creation of this device was motivated by the RMS Titanic disaster of 1912, which highlighted the
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Type of electro-acoustic transducer
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fessenden_oscillator
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2023-11-20T09:06:58Z
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