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RefNoCLP/18i/87
LevelItem
TitlePaper, 'An account of an experiment made at a meeting of the Royal Society at Gresham College May the 30th 1705 touching the propagation of sound in condensed air. Together with a repetition of the same in the open field' by Francis Hauksbee
Date[1705]
DescriptionHauksbee writes: 'A Bell being included in a Brass Recipient, and plac’d at one end of a Room, about 50 yards in length: At the other end of which stood some Gentlemen to observe the found; which before any Air was intruded, the Bell upon shaking was heard at that distance, tho not without diligent attention.'

Subject: Physics

Read to the Royal Society on 13 June 1705

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of an experiment made at a meeting of the Royal Society at Gresham college, upon the propagation of sound in condensed air. Together with a repetition of the same in the open field, by Mr F. Hauksbee'
LanguageEnglish
Extent2p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1704.0067
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8345Hauksbee; Francis (c 1660 - 1713)c 1660 - 1713
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