Sound experiment
Date
1859
Creator
Somerville Scott Alison (1813 - 1877, British) , Physician
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height (drawing): 180mm
width (drawing): 112mm
width (drawing): 112mm
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Description
Sketch of an experiment to detect the ticking of a pocket watch using an Alison differential stethoscope. The stethoscope tubes are suspended in glasses of air and water on either side of the timepiece. Alison’s experiment demonstrated that water augmented faint sounds.
Unpublished figure 3 from the manuscript paper “The intensification of sound through solid bodies by the interposition of water between them & the distal extremity of hearing tubes”, by Somerville Scott Alison. Abstracted in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, vol.9 (1857-1859), pp.649-651. Not signed.
Somerville Scott Alison (1813-1877) was a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and an expert on diseases of the heart and lungs.
Unpublished figure 3 from the manuscript paper “The intensification of sound through solid bodies by the interposition of water between them & the distal extremity of hearing tubes”, by Somerville Scott Alison. Abstracted in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, vol.9 (1857-1859), pp.649-651. Not signed.
Somerville Scott Alison (1813-1877) was a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and an expert on diseases of the heart and lungs.
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