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==Further reading== * [http://www.bluehaze.com.au/modlight/ModLightBiblio.htm Chris Long and Mike Groth's optical audio telecommunications webpage] * Ackroyd, William. "The Photophone" in "Science for All", Vol. 2 (R. Brown, ed.), Cassell & Co., London, circa 1884, pp. 307β312. A popular account, profusely illustrated with steel engravings. * Armengaud, J. " Le photophone de M.Graham Bell". Soc. Ing. civ. Mem., year 1880, Vol 2. pp. 513β522. * AT&T Company. "The Radiophone", pamphlet distributed at Louisiana Purchase Exhibition, St Louis, Missouri, 1904. Describes the photophone work of Hammond V Hayes at the Bell Labs (patented 1897) and the German engineer H T Simon in the same year. * [[Alexander Graham Bell|Bell, Alexander Graham]]. "On the Production and Reproduction of Sound by Light: the Photophone". Am. Ass. for the Advancement of Sci., Proc., Vol 29., October 1880, pp. 115β136. Also in ''American Journal of Science'', Series 3. No. 20, 1880, pp. 305β324; Eng. L., 30. 1880, pp. 240β242; Electrician, Vol 5. 1880, pp. 214β215, 220β221, 237; ''Journal of the Society of Telegraph Engineers'', No. 9, 1880, pp. 404β426; Nat. L., Vol 22. 1880, pp. 500β503; Ann. Chim. Phys., Serie 5. Vol 21. 1880, pp. 399β430; E.T.Z., Vol. 1. 1880, pp. 391β396. Discussed at length in Eng. L., Vol 30. 1880, pp. 253β254, 407β409. In these papers, Bell accords the credit for the first demonstrations of the transmission of speech by light to a Mr A C Brown of London "in September or October 1878". * [[Alexander Graham Bell|Bell, Alexander Graham]]. "Sur l'application du photophone a l'etude des bruits qui ont lieu a la surface solaire". C. R., Vol. 91. 1880, pp. 726β727. * [[Alexander Graham Bell|Bell, Alexander Graham]]. "Professor A G Bell on Selenium and the Photophone". Pharm. J. and Trans., Series 3. Vol. 11., 1880β1881, pp. 272β276; The Electrician No 5, 18 September 1880, pp 220β221 and 2 October 1880 pp 237; Nature (London) Vol 22, 23 September 1880, pp. 500β503; Engineering Vol 30, pp 240β242, 253, 254, 407β409; and Journal of the Society of Telegraph Engineers Vol 9, pp 375β387. * [[Alexander Graham Bell|Bell, Alexander Graham]]. "Other papers on the photophone" E.T.Z. No. 1, 1880, pp 391β396; ''Journal of the Society for the Arts'' 1880, No. 28, pp 847β848 & No. 29 pp 60β62; C.R. No. 91, 1880β1881, pp 595β598, 726, 727, 929β931, 982, 1882 pp 409β412, 450, 451, 1224β1227. * [[Alexander Graham Bell|Bell, Alexander Graham]]. "Le Photophone De La Production Et De La Lumiere". Gauthier-Villars, Imprimeur-Libraire, Paris. 1880. <small>(Note: this is item #26, Folder #4, as noted in "Finding Aid for the Alexander Graham Bell Collection, 1880β1925", Collection number: 308, [[UCLA]] Library, Department of Special Collections Manuscripts Division, as viewable at the [http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt8c6008r5 Online Archive of California])</small> * "Bell's Photophone". Nature Vol 24, 4 November 1880; The Electrician, Vol. 6, 1881, pp. 136β138. * Appleton's Journal. "The Photophone". Appleton's Journal, Vol. 10 No. 56, New York, February 1881, pp. 181β182. * Bidwell, Shelford. "The Photophone". Nature., 23. 1881, pp. 58β59. * Bidwell, Shelford. "Selenium and Its Applications to the Photophone and Telephotography". Proceedings of the Royal Institution (G.B.), Vol 9. 1881, pp. 524β535; The English Mechanic and World Of Science, Vol. 33, 22 April 1881, pp. 158β159 and 29 April 1881 pp. 180β181. Also in Chem. News, Vol. 44, 1881, pp. 1β3, 18β21. (From a lecture at the Royal Institution on 11 March 1881). * Breguet, A. "Les recepteurs photophoniques de selenium". Ann. Chim. Phys., Series 5. Vol 21. 1880, pp. 560β563. * Breguet, A. "Sur les experiences photophonique du Professeur Alexander Graham Bell et de M. Sumner Tainter": C.R.; Vol 91., 1880, pp 595β598. * Electrician. "Bell's Photophone", Electrician, Vol. 6, February 5, 1881, pp. 136β138,183. * Jamieson, Andrew. Nat. L., Vol. 10, 1881, p. 11. This Glasgow scientist seems to have been the first to suggest the usage of a manometric gas flame for optical transmission, demonstrated at a meeting of the Glasgow Philosophical Society; "The History of selenium and its action in the Bell Photophone, with description of recently designed form", Proceedings of the Philosophical Society of Glasgow No. 13, 1881, ***Moser, J. "The Microphonic Action of Selenium Cells". Phys. Soc., Proc., Vol. 4, 1881, pp. 348β360. Also in Phil. Mag., Series 5, Vol.12, 1881, pp. 212β223. * Kalischer, S. "Photophon Ohne Batterie". Rep. f. Phys., Vol. 17., 1881, pp. 563β570. * [[Catherine MacKenzie|MacKenzie, Catherine]] "Alexander Graham Bell", Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, p. 226, 1928. * Mercadier, E. "La radiophonie indirecte". Lumiere Electrique, Vol. 4, 1881, pp. 295β299. * Mercadier, E. "Sur la radiophonie produite a l'aide du selenium". C. R., Vol. 92,1881, pp. 705β707. * Mercadier, E. "Sur la construction de recepteurs photophoniques a selenium". C. R., Vol. 92, 1881, pp. 789β790. * Mercadier, E. "Sur l'influence de la temperature sur les recepteurs radiophoniques a selenium". C. R., Vol. 92, 1881, pp. 1407β1408. * Molera & Cebrian. "The Photophone". Eng. L., Vol. 31, 1881, p. 358. * Preece, Sir William H. "Radiophony", Engineering Vol. 32, 8 July 1881, pp. 29β33; ''Journal of the Society of Telegraph Engineers'', Vol 10, 1881, pp. 212β228. On the photophone. * Rankine, A.O. "Talking over a Sunbeam". El. Exp. (N. Y.), Vol. 7, 1920, pp. 1265β1316. * Sternberg, J.M. [https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/P?magbell:1:./temp/~ammem_3ShO::@@@mdb=mcc,gottscho,detr,nfor,wpa,aap,cwar,bbpix,cowellbib,calbkbib,consrvbib,bdsbib,dag,fsaall,gmd,pan,vv,presp,varstg,suffrg,nawbib,horyd,wtc,toddbib,mgw,ncr,ngp,musdibib,hlaw,papr,lhbumbib,rbpebib,lbcoll,alad,hh,aaodyssey,magbell,bbc,dcm,raelbib,runyon,dukesm,lomaxbib,mtj,gottlieb,aep,qlt,coolbib,fpnas,aasm,denn,relpet,amss,aaeo,mff,afc911bib,mjm,mnwp,rbcmillerbib,molden,ww2map,mfdipbib,afcnyebib,klpmap,hawp,omhbib,rbaapcbib,mal,ncpsbib,ncpm,lhbprbib,ftvbib,afcreed,aipn,cwband,flwpabib,wpapos,cmns,psbib,pin,coplandbib,cola,tccc,curt,mharendt,lhbcbbib,eaa,haybib,mesnbib,fine,cwnyhs,svybib,mmorse,afcwwgbib,mymhiwebib,uncall,afcwip,mtaft,manz,llstbib,fawbib,berl,fmuever,cdn,upboverbib,mussm,cic,afcpearl,awh,awhbib,sgp,wright,lhbtnbib,afcesnbib,hurstonbib,mreynoldsbib,spaldingbib,sgproto,scsmbib,afccalbib,mamcol The Volta Prize of the French Academy Awarded to Prof. Alexander Graham Bell: A Talk With Dr. J.M. Sternberg], The Evening Traveler, September 1, 1880, The Alexander Graham Bell Papers at the [[Library of Congress]] * Thompson, Silvanus P. "Notes on the Construction of the Photophone". Phys. Soc.Proc., Vol. 4, 1881, pp. 184β190. Also in Phil. Mag., Vol. 11, 1881, pp. 286β291. Abstracted in Chem. News, Vol. 43, 1881, p. 43; Eng. L., Vol. 31, 1881, p. 96. * Tomlinson, H. "The Photophone". Nat. L., Vol. 23, 1881, pp. 457β458. * U.S. Radio and Television Corp. "Ultra-violet rays used in Television", New York Times, 29 May 1929, p. 5: Demonstration of transmission of a low definition (mechanically scanned) video signal over a modulated light beam. Terminal stations 50 feet apart. Public demonstration at Bamberger and Company's Store, Newark, New Jersey. Earliest known usage of modulated light comms for conveying video signals. See also report "Invisible Ray Transmits Pictures" in Science and Invention, November 1929, Vol. 17, p. 629. * White, R.H. "Photophone". Harmsworth's Wireless Encyclopaedia, Vol. 3, pp. 1541β1544. * Weinhold, A. "Herstellung von Selenwiderstanden fur Photophonzwecke". E.T.Z., Vol. 1, 1880, p. 423.
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