| Description |
1 online resource (400 p.) |
| Series |
Nineteenth-Century Science, Technology and Medicine: Sources and Documents Series ; v.1 |
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Nineteenth-Century Science, Technology and Medicine: Sources and Documents Series
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chronology -- An Introduction to Science and Sound in Nineteenth-Century Britain -- 1 New Experiments on Sound -- 2 The Enchanted Lyre -- 3 The Acoucryptophone, or Enchanted Lyre -- 4 Enchanted Lyre -- 5 Description of the Kaleidophone, or Phonic Kaleidoscope -- 6 The Kaleidophone, or Phonic Kaleidoscope -- 7 Experiments on Audition -- 8 On the Resonances, or Reciprocated Vibrations of Columns of Air |
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9 On the Transmission of Musical Sounds Through Solid Linear Conductors, and on their Subsequent Reciprocation -- 10 On the Vowel Sounds, and on Reed Organ-pipes -- 11 On the Vowel Sounds, and on Organ-pipes -- 12 Royal Institution -- 13 On a Peculiar Class of Acoustical Figures, and on the Forms of Fluids Vibrating on Elastic Surfaces -- 14 On the Figures Obtained by Strewing Sand on Vibrating Surfaces, Commonly Called Acoustic Figures -- 15 Lectures on Sound -- 16 Letters on Natural Magic addressed to Sir Walter Scott -- 17 Researches on the Elasticity of Regularly Crystallized Bodies |
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18 On the Vibration of Heated Metals: By Arthur Trevelyan, Esq. -- Including a Letter on the Same Subject by Dr W. Knight -- 19 Trevelyan's Experiments on the Production of Sound during the Conduction of Heat -- 20 On Sonorous Phænomena in Electro-Magnets -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781003805151 |
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1003805159 |
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