Rudyard Kipling

communicator n.	1905 R. Kipling With the Night Mail in McClure’s Magazine Nov. 28/2 He leans forward in his belt, eyes glued to the colloid, and one ear cocked toward the General Communicator. [Ibid. 30/1] The only warning is the electric skin-tension…and an irritability which the gibbering of the General Communicator increases almost to hysteria.