http://www.can2.com/tin-phone Searchable answers to utterly simple and complex questions Mon, 14 Jun 2010 03:37:11 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 http://www.can2.com/tin-phone/comment-page-1#comment-20 admin Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:14:36 +0000 http://www.can2.com/?p=139#comment-20 YES! It’s an old game many children play. By stretching a string taught between two cans, sound vibrations can travel from one can to the other. The bottom of a can acts like a diaphragm in a regular phone, vibrating as many as 1,000 times per second. The string then transmits the current in much the same way a telephone wire would. Try it! YES! It’s an old game many children play. By stretching a string taught between two cans, sound vibrations can travel from one can to the other. The bottom of a can acts like a diaphragm in a regular phone, vibrating as many as 1,000 times per second. The string then transmits the current in much the same way a telephone wire would. Try it!

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