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HAVING to prepare some lectures on sound, I wished, if possible, to illustrate, without any very complicated apparatus, the way in which a sound-wave is propagated.
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SMITH, F. A Mechanical Illustration of the Propagation of a Sound-Wave. Nature 40, 620 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/040620a0
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