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== [[Zirkoff, Boris | == [[Zirkoff, Boris]] == | ||
Zirkoff's sketch of Cromwell Fleetwood Varley covers his career as a telegraphy engineer, including his work on submarine cable faults, the double-current key and relay, and an 1870 device for transmitting sound that anticipated the telephone; he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1871. The entry also describes Varley's long engagement with Spiritualism from around 1850, including experiments designed to detect fraud in séances (notably with the medium Florence Cook) and his favorable testimony regarding sittings with D. D. Home before the London Dialectical Society. For the full text, see the source page below. | Zirkoff's sketch of Cromwell Fleetwood Varley covers his career as a telegraphy engineer, including his work on submarine cable faults, the double-current key and relay, and an 1870 device for transmitting sound that anticipated the telephone; he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1871. The entry also describes Varley's long engagement with Spiritualism from around 1850, including experiments designed to detect fraud in séances (notably with the medium Florence Cook) and his favorable testimony regarding sittings with D. D. Home before the London Dialectical Society. For the full text, see the source page below. | ||
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|detail = vol. 1, pp. 528-529 | |detail = vol. 1, pp. 528-529 | ||
|link = Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.1)#528 | |link = Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.1)#528 | ||
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'''{{Style S-Small capitals|Varley, Cromwell Fleetwood (1828-1883)}}'''. See Vol. I, pp. 529-30, for biographical data. | |||
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|author = Boris de Zirkoff | |||
|title = H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings | |||
|detail = vol. 3, p. 535 | |||
|link = Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.3)#535 | |||
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