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  • The final result of our researches has widened the class of substances sensitive to light vibrations, until we can propound the fact of such sensitiveness being a general property of all matter.

    Statement to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Boston, Massachusetts August 27, 1880. Published as "On the Production and Reproduction of Sound by Light", American Journal of Sciences, Third Series, Volume XX, No.118, pp. 305-324, October 1880.