Article View: sci.electronics
Article #17932Injury via Phone
From: 0732
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1987 17:56
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1987 17:56
10 lines
1024 bytes
1024 bytes
One often hears about people blowing whistles or air horns into a
telephone to thwart obscene callers. Is a telephone capable of
transmitting enough sound amplitude to cause pain or damage to the ears?
If so, this seems to be a dangerous capability in the hands of
some crank.
--------------------------------------------------------------
| Alan Filipski, GTX Corporation, Phoenix, Arizona 85021, USA |
| {ihnp4,cbosgd,decvax,hplabs,seismo}!sun!sunburn!gtx!al |
--------------------------------------------------------------
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<414@gtx.com>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rutgers!ames!hao!noao!mcdsun!sunburn!gtx!alShow Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rutgers!ames!hao!noao!mcdsun!sunburn!gtx!al From: al@gtx.com (0732) Newsgroups: sci.electronics,sci.med Subject: Injury via Phone Message-ID: <414@gtx.com> Date: Thu, 20-Aug-87 13:56:58 EDT Article-I.D.: gtx.414 Posted: Thu Aug 20 13:56:58 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 22-Aug-87 18:26:33 EDT Reply-To: al@gtx.UUCP (Al Filipski) Organization: GTX Corporation, Phoenix Lines: 10