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IN his interesting paper (NATURE, vol. xvii. p. 283) Mr. F. J. M. Page communicated as the result of his experiment to obtain indication of currents from a telephone by means of a mercury capillary tube, that the motion of the mercury was “always towards the end of the capillary.” In the repetition of this experiment before the Physical Society on Saturday, February 16, Mr. Page found, however, that the mercury moved persistently in the opposite direction.
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SABINE, R. The Telephone. Nature 17, 379–380 (1878). https://doi.org/10.1038/017379b0
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