This circuit is from a 1968 documentation using one of the first integrated circuits available at the time, the TAA370. The circuit is powered by 1.3 V using a 200 ohm handset.
Approaching the hand or an object to the sensor of this circuit, the relay closes its contacts. The...
For those who want to recover an old multimeter of this type, the circuit presented is worth...
The circuit shown is only for analog telephone lines. I found it in Popular Electronics (1991). It...