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Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1670: Tyndall and Sound

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on April 22, 2019 · Episode: 1670 John Tyndall: measuring sound without electronics. Today, how did people measure sound in the nineteenth century?

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