Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, a volume of original, historic and descriptive writings showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress (1901)
Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 · Philadelphia, A. J. Holman & co · leaf 48
ne, in army and navy ; throughout gov-ernment departments ; and in Budapest, Hungary, it is a purveyor of generalnews, like the newspaper, for the Telephone Gazette of that city has alist of regular subscribers, to whom it transmits, at private houses, clubs,cafes, restaurants, and public… … WONDERS OF ELECTRICITY 35 not only an instrument for writing or preserving sound, but for reproducingit. As a simple recorder of sound, it was an instrument dating as far back as1807, when Dr. Young showed how a tuning-fork might be made to trace arecord of its own vibrations. But Youngsthought had…
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