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- noun Plural form of
coherer .
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Examples
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These phenomena led to a new theory of metallic coherers.
Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose
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In the Marconi system of the present time there are many forms of coherers, also the magnetic detector and other variations of the original apparatus.
Marvels of Modern Science Paul Severing
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Gears and coherers, radioactivities and the powers are as much a factor of Mr. Wells 'world as pounds, shillings and pence.
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The structure of brain and nerve being similar, it is conceivable that there may be present masses of such nerve coherers in the brain, whose special function it may be to receive impulses brought from without, through the connecting sequence of ether waves of appropriate order of magnitude.
Genuine Mediumship or The Invisible Powers William Walker Atkinson 1897
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"I have made a receiving instrument, though that is even more crude than the sending plant, for it had to be delicately adjusted, and I did not have just the magnets, carbons, coherers and needles that I needed.
Tom Swift and His Wireless Message: or, the castaways of Earthquake island Victor [pseud.] Appleton
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"The one thing, you may not know, that has kept us back while wireless telegraphy has gone ahead so fast is that in wireless we have been able to discard coherers and relays and use detectors and microphones in their places.
The Dream Doctor 1908
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