英语词汇telephone的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

telephone. Telephone, from the Greek roots for “far” and “sound,” was a term first used to describe any device for con- veying sounds to a distant point. In 1667, for example, Robert Hooke invented a device in which vibrations in a diaphragm caused by voice or sound waves are transmitted mechanically along a string or wire to a similar diaphragm that reproduces the sound. He called this device a string telephone. Another in- ventor, in 1796, called his megaphone a telephone, as did the in- ventor of a speaking tube not much later. Alexander Graham Bell used the old name for his invention as soon as he invented it in 1876. See telegraph; “mr. watson come here . . .”; number please.

词汇	telephone
词源	telephone. Telephone, from the Greek roots for “far” and “sound,” was a term first used to describe any device for con- veying sounds to a distant point. In 1667, for example, Robert Hooke invented a device in which vibrations in a diaphragm caused by voice or sound waves are transmitted mechanically along a string or wire to a similar diaphragm that reproduces the sound. He called this device a string telephone. Another in- ventor, in 1796, called his megaphone a telephone, as did the in- ventor of a speaking tube not much later. Alexander Graham Bell used the old name for his invention as soon as he invented it in 1876. See telegraph; “mr. watson come here . . .”; number please.
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