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Article #57FIBER OPTIC LESSON
From: Daniel Levels
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 00:00
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 00:00
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95 out of 100 US telephone calls are transported over Fiber Optic cables and systems. The following material offers supportive information to conduct an exciting lesson on how/why our voice is joined with over 32,000 other conversations as it journeys through a Fiber Optic telephone cable! All concepts are supported by simple classroom experiments, including comparison of human hair and optical fiber under a microscope. (This experiment is very popular) Developed by long-term Telephone Company Engineer D.B.Levels, this material has been presented to science classes, teacher gatherings, civic meetings and college classrooms. Very practical and very popular. All materials may be duplicated for hand-outs. Grade 6-12 recommended. Package includes discussion text (including overviews), experiments, facts and practical explanations, plus a section of actual telephone- grade optical fiber (125um single-mode, step indexed fiber, end stripped for viewing, approx 12" in length) $4.00 (check or MO, no cash), including self-addressed, stamped business envelope to: dB Levels, P.O.Box 295337, Lewisville, TX, 75029-5337. 30 day money-back guarantee. Yours truly, Daniel B. Levels sbmf11f@prodigy.com
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1226a2,f19768e6a76c8c2d,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1226a2,public From: SBMF11F@prodigy.com (Daniel Levels) Subject: FIBER OPTIC LESSON Date: 1996/09/03 Message-ID: <50ieb4$159s@usenetz1.news.prodigy.com> X-Deja-AN: 178284422 distribution: world organization: Prodigy Services Company 1-800-PRODIGY newsgroups: can.schoolnet.phys.sr