candlestick telephone (English, noun)
expansion: candlestick telephone (plural candlestick telephones)
Senses:
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
glosses: An early style of telephone with a mouthpiece (transmitter) mounted at the top of its stand, and a receiver that was held by the user to the ear during a call. When not in use, the receiver rested in the fork of the switch hook protruding to the side of the stand, thereby disconnecting the audio circuit from the network.
tags: historical
Forms:
form: candlestick telephones
tags: plural