Communications: electrical

SECTION I - CLASS DEFINITION

This is the residual home for subject matter, not elsewhere classified, relating to communication by means which are in part or in whole electrical.

Communications is defined, for the purpose of this definition, as being the handling of information or intelligence and is not restricted to the conveying of said information or intelligence between geographically spaced points. (Thus, a traffic obstruction light which merely marks a safety island is a means for communicating information or intelligence, viz., the fact of the presence of the traffic island).

Information or intelligence is defined, for the purpose of this definition, as being the subject matter which is handled by signaling systems or signaling devices (such as telegraph systems) or by that portion of nonsignaling systems or nonsignaling devices (such as power supply systems) which is designated in the arts as having a control function (such as the supervisory circuits which control the circuit breakers of an electric power network).