[Alexander Graham Bell] Association copy, 1852, George Long. The Thoughts of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. Little, Brown, Boston, tipped into the front are notes from Alexander Graham Bell's 1893 McClure's Magazine interview "Thought Transference by Electricity" (see notes for partial text), gift inscription on front page, leather spine and tips, in plastic wrapper, 7.5"h x 5.25"w

Notes/Literature: "That premise is that the human brain is merely a kind of electrical reservoir, and that thinking is nothing more than an electrical disturbance, like the aurora borealis or the sparks from a Holtz-machine. The nerves are the wires leading from the central battery in the head. The reasonableness of this assumption is increased when one remembers that electricity may be made to act{?} the nerves, even in a lifeless body..." (see blog post https://zapatopi.net/blog/?post=201107195395.bells_thought_transference_helmet)

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