Abstract
LITTLE has been added to our knowledge of the auditory ossicles since the classical researches of Helmholtz, although the subject is of much interest. Sir Thomas Wrightson shows that, owing to the peculiar arrangement of the footplate of the stapes and the formation of the annular membrane, to and fro movements of the stapes are accompanied by vigorous transverse vibrations of its frame. These movements will be represented in any compound wave form by the points at which “the compound curve cuts across the average line representing the central or normal position of the membrane.”
On the Impulses of Compound Sound Waves and their Mechanical Transmission through the Ear.
By Sir Thomas Wrightson, Bart. Pp. 40, and portfolio of diagrams. (London: Thomas Kell and Son, 1907.)
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G., M. On the Impulses of Compound Sound Waves and their Mechanical Transmission through the Ear . Nature 77, 289 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/077289a0
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