Kirkby and bell

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Sickie. ‘TELEPHONE TO WIRELESS,

DR. ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL INSPECTING THD “WIRELESS” APPARAT US USED BY LIEUTENNT G. A, TAYLOR:
FOR HIS DEMONSTRATION WITH ETHER WAVES AT THE UNITED’ SERVICE INSTITUTE ON FRIDAY EVENING.

Lieutenant Taylor concluded his lecture on ‘The Air Age and its Military Significance” by utilising ether waves tc run a Union Jack to a mast-
head?"setting free an electric fan and working a phonograph that played the National Anthem. Mr. Kirkby, who made the apparatus, is
a replica of the ‘Hertz detector, by which electric waves were first discovered, Behind this

standing on the right. The circle in the centre is
, detector is'the motor and contact breaker, :

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