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All About Glass

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On a Thread of Glass: Optical Fibers for Communication
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I have heard a ray of the sun laugh and cough and sing!     — Alexander Graham Bell It was a bright idea: use sunlight to transmit the human voice. In 1880, American innovator Alexander Graham Bell tried it, using a thin, flexible mirror to reflect a light beam onto a distant receiver. His voice