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  2. The Mosquito - Wikipedia

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    The sound was made into a mobile phone ringtone, which could not be heard by teachers if the phone rang during a class. [13] Mobile phone speakers are capable of producing frequencies above 20 kHz. [14] This ringtone became informally known as "Teen Buzz" [15] or "the Mosquito ringtone" and has since been sold commercially.

  3. List of sirens built by Alerting Communicators of America

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    10 and 15 HP models were nearly the same, aside from motor used. The P-50 was and still is the loudest dual tone siren in the world. The P-15 (Single-tone) and P-50 were still being produced by ASC until 2002 and 2007, under different names (P-15 being the RM-127 and the P-50 being the RM-135/T-135 AC). The PN-20 was the last siren made by ACA.

  4. Siren (alarm) - Wikipedia

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    In a pneumatic siren, the stator is the part which cuts off and reopens air as rotating blades of a chopper move past the port holes of the stator, generating sound. The pitch of the siren's sound is a function of the speed of the rotor and the number of holes in the stator. A siren with only one row of ports is called a single tone siren.

  5. SiraTone - Wikipedia

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    A unique feature of the SiraTone siren series was the ability to conduct routine tests with a Westminster Chime melody instead of an actual alarm tone, intended to be a more pleasant alternative to the use of actual alarm tones. This allowed for operators to test sirens without fear of public panic and still ensure siren speakers were fully ...

  6. Civil defense siren - Wikipedia

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    A civil defense siren is a siren used to provide an emergency population warning to the general population of approaching danger. Initially designed to warn city dwellers of air raids ( air-raid sirens ) during World War II , they were later used to warn of nuclear attack and natural disasters , such as tornadoes ( tornado sirens ).

  7. Apocalyptic siren blares as Hurricane Helene ravages North ...

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    Apocalyptic siren blares as Hurricane Helene ravages North Carolina village, video shows. Katherine Donlevy. September 29, 2024 at 1:33 AM.

  8. Ringing tone - Wikipedia

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    When the call routing is successful and the receiving telephone is not already in a call, the destination telephone receives an electrical signal, called power ringing, or the ring tone, to alert the recipient of the incoming call. During this period of alerting, the caller also receives a distinctive signal, audible ringing, also called ...

  9. List of civil defense sirens - Wikipedia

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    Sentry Siren; SiraTone This page was last edited on 5 August 2024, at 16:06 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License ...