Author: Tyndall, John
Title: Sound
Description: New York, Greenwood Press, (1969). orig.cloth. 22x14cm, 448 pp, A facsimile reprint of the [1903] Third Revised & Enlarged Edition.. Frontis.textual drawings. Minor rubbing, VG. ¶ Contents: The Nerves & Sensation; Physical Distinction between Noise & Music; Vibrations of Strings; Vibrations of a Rod fixed at Both Ends...; Longitudinal Vibrations of a Wire; Singing Flames; Researches on the Acoustic Transparency of the Atmosphere in Relation to the Question of Fog-Signalling; Investigation of the Causes which have hitherto been supposed effective in Preventing the Transmission of Sound through the Atmosphere; Law of Vibratory Motions in Water & Air; Combination of Musical Sounds; On the Influence of Musical Sounds on the Flame of a Jet of Coal-gas by John Le Conte; On Acoustic Reversibility.

Keywords: History of Physics, Sound, Acoustics, , , , , ,