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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
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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
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Xref: mnetor sci.electronics:1190 sci.med:2966

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.

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