klaxon
A loud electric alarm or horn, especially as used in automobiles in the early 20th centuryA loud electric alarm or horn, especially as used in automobiles in the early 20th century.
Meaning
1 sensesA loud electric alarm or horn, especially as used in automobiles in the early 20th century.
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клаксо́нklaksón, кла́ксонklákson, гудо́кgudók
клаксо́нklaksón, кла́ксонklákson
a kind of loud horn formerly used on motor vehicles
Translations
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Origin
From the trademark Klaxon, based on Ancient Greek κλάζω (klázō, “make a sharp sound; screaFrom the trademark Klaxon, based on Ancient Greek κλάζω (klázō, “make a sharp sound; scream”). The word was coined by Franklyn Hallett Lovell Jr., the founder of the Lovell-McConnell Manufacturing Co. of Newark, New Jersey, USA, which in 1908 obtained a licence of the patent to the machine generating the sound from American inventor Miller Reese Hutchison (1876–1944).
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