Tissandier, Gaston, 1843-1899, Frith, Henry, 1840-, Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · London, New York [etc.] Ward, Lock & Co · leaf 537
London, and isby no means strange to the majority of our countrymen,,still some description of it will probably be acceptable,and a glance at its history may prove interesting. In speaking of the Telephone, we must not lose sightof the facts before mentioned, as regards our sense ofhearing, and the… … The receiving apparatus. certain extent, imitated, and a diaphragm, by vibration«,generates and controls an electric current. Professor Wheatstone was the first person to employ theelectric wire for the transmission of sounds, but ProfessorPh.hp Reiss, of Friedrichsdorf, was the first to make…
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