"Acoustical" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... paper, 'On a peculiar class of Optical Deceptions,' to which I believe the beautiful optical toy called the Chromatrope owes its origin. In the same year he published a paper on Vibrating Surfaces, in which he solved an acoustical problem which, though of extreme simplicity when solved, appears to have baffled many eminent men. The problem was to account for the fact that light bodies, such as the seed of lycopodium, collected at the vibrating parts of sounding plates, while sand ran to ...
— Faraday As A Discoverer • John Tyndall
... against the duplication of pipes of similar tone in an organ is that curious acoustical phenomenon, the bete noir of the organ-builder, known as sympathy, or interference of sound waves. When two pipes of exactly the same pitch and scale are so placed that the pulsations of air from the one pass into the other, if blown separately ...
— The Recent Revolution in Organ Building - Being an Account of Modern Developments • George Laing Miller |
