Paper, '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 Hauksbee 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' [1705]