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English: P.D. Richards, Bell's friend and neighbor, wrote the inventor a letter on November 9, 1874 detailing the experiments he had witnessed in which Bell was sending messages over wires using a liquid transmitter filled with mercury. The caption reads: "Apparatus constructed by A. Graham Bell during the winter of 1872-3. Drawn from memory (Feb. 1876) by P. D. Richards (a witness of the experiments)."
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Alexander Graham Bell  (1847–1922)  wikidata:Q34286 s:en:Author:Alexander Graham Bell q:en:Alexander Graham Bell
 
Alexander Graham Bell
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Alexander G. Bell; Graham Bell; Alexander Bell
Description American-British physicist, electrical engineer, engineer, businessperson, inventor and professor
Date of birth/death 3 March 1847 Edit this at Wikidata 2 August 1922 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Edinburgh Edit this at Wikidata Beinn Bhreagh Edit this at Wikidata
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