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... Tube • 26. - Experimental Study of the Laws of Reflection of Sound 27. Sonorous Refraction . M. Sondhauss's ... Tube , with Manometric Flame . 46. - Apparatus for the Comparison of the Vibratory Move- ments of Two Sonorous Tubes · 47 ...
... Tube • 26. - Experimental Study of the Laws of Reflection of Sound 27. Sonorous Refraction . M. Sondhauss's ... Tube , with Manometric Flame . 46. - Apparatus for the Comparison of the Vibratory Move- ments of Two Sonorous Tubes · 47 ...
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William Henry Stone. FIG . PAGE 49. Manometric Flames of Two Tubes of a Third 50. — Professor Blake's Method of Photographing Vibrations . 51. - Curve representing a Sound - wave . 98 99 111 52. - Perronet Thompson's Keyboard 53 ...
William Henry Stone. FIG . PAGE 49. Manometric Flames of Two Tubes of a Third 50. — Professor Blake's Method of Photographing Vibrations . 51. - Curve representing a Sound - wave . 98 99 111 52. - Perronet Thompson's Keyboard 53 ...
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... tubes , Stethoscopes . Sounding Rods . Wires . 3. Pugging of floors , Dampers of Pianofortes . 4. Reservoirs , Resonators , Organ Pipes , Sounding - boards . 5. Regulators 6. Detectors Organ Swell . The Ear , Sensitive Flames ...
... tubes , Stethoscopes . Sounding Rods . Wires . 3. Pugging of floors , Dampers of Pianofortes . 4. Reservoirs , Resonators , Organ Pipes , Sounding - boards . 5. Regulators 6. Detectors Organ Swell . The Ear , Sensitive Flames ...
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... tubes instead of wooden rods is occasionally to be heard in the streets of London . Torsional Vibrations are even of less acoustical importance than those named above . They were first , like them , investi- gated by Chladni , but they ...
... tubes instead of wooden rods is occasionally to be heard in the streets of London . Torsional Vibrations are even of less acoustical importance than those named above . They were first , like them , investi- gated by Chladni , but they ...
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... tube of the instrument , which is made to speak by slitting the straw upwards towards the knot for about an inch , thus leaving a tongue standing out and in a position to vibrate . The only instrument in which this primitive arrangement ...
... tube of the instrument , which is made to speak by slitting the straw upwards towards the knot for about an inch , thus leaving a tongue standing out and in a position to vibrate . The only instrument in which this primitive arrangement ...
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