transducer
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- n an electrical device that converts one form of energy into another
- A control box transmits an electronic pulse to a ceramic crystal called a transducer that is mounted to the boat's transom or hull.
- To do that, the ship dropped a series of bottom-placed transducers, which detected the force and direction of the water's flow and transmitted that information to a shipboard .
- No such underwater transducer (noisemaker) had been built before, but the very first units were successful.