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 playing of a musical box using an Alison differential stethoscope. The experimenter is holding the stethoscope tubes on the dry and wet surface of a tilted dinner plate to show that water augmented faint sounds. The musical box is in the foreground of the picture.
Unpublished figure 5 from the manuscript paper “The intensification of sound through solid bodies by the interposition of water between them & the distal extremity of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Unpublished figure 5 from the manuscript paper “The intensification of sound through solid bodies by the interposition of water between them & the distal extremity of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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