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RefNoPP/6/26
Previous numbersPP/38/25
LevelItem
TitlePaper, 'Note on an experiment by [Ernst] Chladni' by Charles Tomlinson
Date1885
DescriptionTomlinson writes: 'Lord Rayleigh, in a memoir “On the Circulation of Air in Kundt’s Tubes”, remarks (“Proc. Roy. Soc.,” xxxvi, 10, and “Phil. Trans.,” 1884, Part I, p. 1) that “it was discovered by Savart that very fine powder does not collect itself at the nodal lines, as does sand in the production of Chladni’s figures, but gathers itself into a cloud, which, after hovering for a time, settles itself over the places of maximum vibration.'

Annotations in pencil and ink.

Subject: Physics

Received 14 March 1885. Read 16 April 185.

A version of this paper was published in volume 38 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Note on an experiment by Chladni'.
Extent11p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk and graphite pencil on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1884.0002
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1883.0075
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1884.0094
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA6333Tomlinson; Charles (1808 - 1897)1808 - 1897
NA6090Strutt; John William (1842 - 1919); 3rd Baron Rayleigh1842 - 1919
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