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of the same intensity in air is increased by a factor of 3750 in water. The
American Submarine Signaling Company developed a hydrophone to detect underwater bells rung from lighthouses and lightships. The case was a thick, hollow brass disc 35 centimetres (14 in) in diameter. On one face was a 1 millimetre (0.039 in) thick brass diaphragm which was coupled by a short brass rod to a
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element with a dish or conical-shaped sound reflector to focus the signals, in a similar manner to a reflecting telescope. This type of hydrophone can be produced from a low-cost omnidirectional type, but must be used while stationary, as the reflector impedes its movement through water. A new way to
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of water, a denser fluid than air. Sound travels 4.3 times faster in water than in air, and a sound wave in water exerts a pressure 60 times that exerted by a wave of the same amplitude in air. Similarly, a standard microphone can be buried in the ground, or immersed in water if it is put in a
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experimented by trailing dipped hydrophones. Bragg tested a hydrophone from a captured German U-boat and found it inferior to
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designed to be used underwater for recording or listening to underwater sound. Most hydrophones are based on a piezoelectric transducer that generates an electric potential when subjected to a pressure change, such as a sound wave.
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direct is to use a spherical body around the hydrophone. The advantage of directivity spheres is that the hydrophone can be moved within the water, ridding it of the interferences produced by a conical-shaped element.
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