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On the Pneumatic Action
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Allgemeine Theorie der Musik auf den Rhythmus der Klangwellenpulse gegründet
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Sur la Sirène, nouvelle machine d’acoustique destinée à mesurer les vibrations [...]
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Cherry Bowl Resonance
Description This is a variation of Savart’s resonance bell where the bell is sounded and the resonator is moved back and forth to resonate with specific frequencies. [...]
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Sonometer
Description The Sonometer is a musical and scientific instrument with ancient roots, commonly employed in demonstrations of acoustics to show the effect of length, tension, diameter, and [...]
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Battements et sons résulants de deux mouvements vibratoires produits simultanément dans [...]
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Über Klänge mit ungleichförmigen Wellen
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Recherches sur les vibrations d’un diapason normal (Untersuchungen über die Schwingungen [...]
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Über die Beobachtung der Luftschwingungen in Orgelpfeifen
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Untersuchungen über die Schwingungen einer Normalstimmgabel
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Stimmgabel mit veränderlichem Tone
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On Manometric Flames
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Apparat zur Messung der Geschwindigkeit des Schalls
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Ueber vortheilhafte Einrichtung eines Locals für gute Wirkung des Schalles
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Die Akustik
Die Akustik was written by Ernst Chladni in 1801, and is the first comprehensive work on acoustics to appear in German. The first part dealt with [...]
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Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni
Chladni was a physicist whose work focused on experimental acoustics. He invented the “Chladni figure” and various instruments. Until his death, he continued to travel and [...]
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Jules Antoine Lissajous
Jules Antoine Lissajous was a high-school teacher, then held prestigious administrative posts in the education system of various parts of France. He had trained in physics, [...]
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8-track tape
The 8-track tape cartridge consists of a case holding a spool of magnetic tape. As a medium for the reproduction of sound, it was popular in [...]
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The Tefifon tape player
The Tefifon is an audio player that uses cartridges containing plastic tape with a vertical arrangement of grooves representing sound. It is a branch of analog [...]
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Helmholtz resonator
Helmholtz described in his 1862 [sic] book, On the Sensations of Tone, an apparatus able to pick out specific frequencies from a sound. The Helmholtz resonator, as it [...]
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Ueber mathematische Stimmung, Temperaturen und Orgelstimmung nach Vibrations-Differenzen oder Stößen
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H.J.L. Struycken
H. J. L. Struycken was a Dutch otolaryngologist, phonetician, and acoustician. After studying medicine in Groningen, in 1893 he started working at the Voorburg psychiatric hospital [...]
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Set of 8 Large Demonstration Tuning Forks
This specific array of precision tuning forks are highly-specialized experimental forks that relate directly to Koenig’s long-standing disagreement with Helmholtz on the nature of combination tones. [...]
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Helmholtz Synthesizer
The sound synthesiser was Helmholtz’s clearest instrumental expression of his theory of timbre, or sound quality. Whereas his spherical resonators dissected compound sounds (vowels or musical [...]
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Certificate of the registration of a trademark for the „Doegen-Lauthalter“
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Vibrations of plates, Chladni’s figures
This video demonstrates the principle of Chladni figures and vibrating plates. Brass plates of different shapes are fixed centrally at the top of wooden columns. Sand is [...]
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Appunn’s “tenor” tonometer recordings
Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on July 12, 2013, by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of [...]
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Tuning fork on resonator
The Case Collection of Physics Instruments (CCPI) has several dozen forks mounted on resonance boxes (see Fig. 1). These were used as frequency standards in research and lecture demonstrations. The [...]
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Tone-Limit-App_1_7680_vps_1876-469
Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on July 17, 2013, by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of [...]
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Tone-Limit-App_1_6826,66_vps_1876-469
Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on July 17, 2013, by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of [...]
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Tone-Limit-App_1_6144_vps_1876-469
Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on July 17, 2013, by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of [...]
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Tone-Limit-App_1_5461,33_vps_1876-469
Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on July 17, 2013, by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of [...]
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Tone-Limit-App_1_5120_vps_1876-469
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Tone-Limit-App_1_ 4608_vps_1876-469
Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on July 17, 2013, by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of [...]
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Tone-Limit-App_1_ 4096_vps_1876-469
Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on July 17, 2013, by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of [...]
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Tone-Limit-App_1_3840_vps_1876-469
Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on July 17, 2013, by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of [...]
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Tone-Limit-App_1_3418,33_vps_1876-469
Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on July 17, 2013, by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of [...]
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Tone-Limit-App_1_3072_vps_1876-469
Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on July 17, 2013, by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of [...]
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Tone-Limit-Apparatus_1_2730,66_vps_1876-469
Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on July 17, 2013, by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of [...]
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Tone-Limit-Apparatus_1_2560_vps_1876-469
Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on July 17, 2013, by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of [...]
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Tone-Limit-Apparatus_1_2304_vps_1876-469
Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on July 17, 2013, by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of [...]
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Tone-Limit Apparatus
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Tone-Limit-Apparatus_1_2048_vps_1876-469
Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on July 17, 2013, by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of [...]
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