Signal monitoring instrument

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AN INSTRUMENT FOR COMBINING AND MONITORING A PLURALITY OF ELECTRICAL INPUT SIGNALS AND TRANSFORMING SAME INTO A UNITARY ELECTRICAL HAVING AN AMPLITUDE SUBSTANTIALLY EQUAL TO THAT OF THE OEN THEREOF HAVING THE LARGEST AMPLITUDE COMPRISING IN COMBINATION, PLURALITY OF DIODES EQUAL IN NUMBER TO THE NUMBER OF INPUT SIGNALS TO BE MONITORED, SAID DIODES EACH HAVING AN ANNODE AND A CATHODE, MEANS RESPECTIVELY CONNECTED TO THE ABODES OF SAID DIODES FOR SHAPING EACH OF SAID PLURALITY OF INPUT SIGNALS IN ACCORDANCE WITH A PREDETERMINED PROGRAM, MEANS INTERCONNECTING EACH OF THE CATHODES OF SAID DIODES FOR COMBINING THE ELECTRICAL SIGNALS THEREFROM, A GROUND MEANS, A REACTANCE MENANS COUPLED BETWEEN THE INTERCONNECTED CATHODES OF SAID DIODESD AND SAID GROUND MEANS, MEANS COUPLED TO THE OUTPUTS OF SAID SIGNAL SHAPING MEANS AND SAID ELECTRICAL SIGNAL COMBINING MEANS FOR RECORDING AND DISPLAYING THE OUTPUT SIGNALS THEREFROM SIMULTANEOUSLY, MEANS FOR CALIBRATING SAID INPUT SIGNAL SHAPING MEANS AND SAID OUTPUT SIGNAL RECORDING AND DIPLAYING MEANS, MEANS FOR RECEIVING SAID PLURALITY OF INPUT ELECTRICAL SIGNALS FROM ASSOCIATED ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT, MEANS CONNECTED TO SAID SIGNAL SHAPING MEANS, SAID CALIBRATION MEANS, AND SAID INPUT SIGNAL RECEIVING MEANS FOR SELECTIVELY APPLYING THE RECEIVED INPUT SIGNALS AND THE OUTPUT CALIBRATION SIGNALS THEREFROM THERETO EITHER INDIVIDUALLY OF COLLECTIVELY, AND UTILIZATION EQUIPMENT ELECTRICALLY COUPLED TO THE AFORESAID SIGNAL COMBINING MEANS FOR RESPONSE TO SAID UNITARY ELECTRICAL SIGNAL.