Sound experiment
Date
1859
Creator
Somerville Scott Alison (1813 - 1877, British) , Physician
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Dimensions
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 two hearing implements: a hollow rubber tube and a solid wooden rod. The experimenter is holding the cup of each implement in a glass of water on either side of the music box.
Captioned below: “Air Tube in right ear, solid rod of wood in left ear: both in water. Left ear plugged with chewed paper.”
Unpublished figure (not numbered) from the manuscript paper “The intensification of sound through solid bodies by the interposition of water between them & the distal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.
Captioned below: “Air Tube in right ear, solid rod of wood in left ear: both in water. Left ear plugged with chewed paper.”
Unpublished figure (not numbered) from the manuscript paper “The intensification of sound through solid bodies by the interposition of water between them & the distal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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