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    proceed from z having the characteristic of the intermittent current - that is that the pitch was manifest, but not the quality of the voice.
    This sound would stop suddenly + then burst out again. When the stoppage occured the steel spring S (Fig 4 page 89) would go with a click against the face ofthe magnet + stick showing that there was a continuous current.
    In such cases I found that the pencil P had been so deeply immersed as to allow the copper wire W' to touch the mercury.

  1. Mr. Richardson + my father sang simultaneously into the tube A notes of different pitch. At z both the sounds were audible without confusion, but only for a moment.
    The undulatory current every now + then would be changed into an intermittent current, + the sounds would then
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