| Reference number | CLP/18i/122 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Paper, 'An account of an experiment touching the propagation of sound passing from the sonorous body into the common air in one direction only' by Francis Hauksbee |
| Date | [1709] |
| Description | Hauksbee writes: 'Since by the former Experiment actual Sound could not be transmitted thro a Space void of Air; I was inclin'd to try whether that Sound, which should be propagated in a Receiver, having a Communication with the open Air at one small Apperture only, but otherwise intirely surrounded by a Vacuum; Whether I say, that Sound would be increas'd, or continu’d Sounding longer, at each Stroke that should be given the Bell, than it would do, were not its Body encompass’d by such a Medium.' He describes an experiment on the propagation of sound.
Subject: Physics
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of an experiment, touching the propagation of sound, passing from the sonorous body into the common air, in one direction only' |
| Language | English |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| Physical description | Ink on paper |
| Access status | Open |
| Related material | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1708.0056 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA8345 | Hauksbee; Francis (c 1660 - 1713) | c 1660 - 1713 |