its strongest part, as the results of the experiments at first sight
appear to show.

It was while engaged on those experiments that I discovered that a
telephone was affected when not in any way connected with the spiral,
but simply placed so that the lines of force proceeding from the spiral
impinged upon the iron diaphragm of the telephone. Please to bear in
mind that the direction of the lines of force emitted from the spiral
is such that, starting from any point on one of its faces, a circle
is described extending to a similar point on the opposite side. The
diameter of the circles described decreases from infinity as the points
from which they start recede from the center toward the circumference.
From points near the circumference these circles or curves are very
small. To illustrate this to you, the reverser now in circuit with
spiral C will be replaced by a simple make and break arrangement,
consisting on a small electro-magnet fixed between the prongs of a
tuning-fork, and so connected that electro-magnet influences the arms of
the fork, causing them to vibrate to a certain pitch. The apparatus is
placed in a distant room to prevent the sound being heard here, as I
wish to make it inductively audible to you. For that purpose I have here
a light spiral which is in circuit with this telephone. Now, by placing
the spiral in front of spiral C, the telephone reproduces the sound
given out by the tuning-fork so loudly that I have no doubt all of you
can hear it. Here is another spiral similar in every respect to spiral
C. This is in circuit with a battery and an ordinary mechanical make and
break arrangement, the sound given off by which I will now make audible
to you in the same way that I did the sound of the tuning-fork. Now you
hear it. I will change from the one spiral to the other several times,
as I want to make you acquainted with the sounds of both, so that you
will have no difficulty in distinguishing them, the one from the other.