Alexander Graham Bell's Hypothesis

I have read somewhere that the resistance offered by a wire ... is affected by the tension of the wire. If this is so, a continuous current of electricity passed through a vibrating wire should meet with a varying resistance, and hence a pulsatory action should be induced in the current ... [corresponding] in amplitude, as well as in rate of movement, to the vibrations of the string ... [Thus] the timbre of a sound [a quality essential to intelligible speech] could be transmitted ... [and] the strength of the current can be increased ad libitum without destroying the relative intensities of the vibrations.

Notes:

That the timbre of a sound may be transmitted across a wire without loosing strength.

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 Alexander Graham Bell and the Conquest of Solitude
Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Bruce , Robert V. (1990-01-02), Alexander Graham Bell and the Conquest of Solitude, Cornell Univ Pr, Retrieved on 2012-01-04
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