Paper, 'On the vibrations and tones produced by the contact of bodies having different temperatures' by John Tyndall Subject: Physics Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the vibrations and tones produced by the contact of bodies having different temperatures'. Written by Tyndall at the Royal Institution. Received by the Royal Society on 16 January 1854. Read 26 January 1854. Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 6, 1854. January 1854