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MANY readers of NATURE will doubtless be glad to know that Mr. Graham Bell's extraordinary experiments may be repeated on a small scale with very simple apparatus, no special appliances being required beyond the mirror transmitter and the selenium receiver, both of which may be easily constructed. I propose to give a short description of an arrangement which has in my hands been very successful.

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BIDWELL, S. The Photophone . Nature 23, 58–59 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/023058a0

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