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RAYLEIGH'S “Theory of Sound,” published more than fifty years ago, may be taken as represent ing the whole range of the physical acoustics of that period, and the much-enlarged second edition, pub lished eighteen years later, gave, in conjunction with Helmholtz's “Sensations of Tone,” a fairly complete view of the acoustics of a generation ago. Subsequent treatises have followed the classical methods thus established, and show little trace of the revolu tion which has occurred during the past decade in consequence of the influence of electrical theory and practice. These changes have been stimulated by needs arising partly out of the War, but still more out of broadcasting.
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H., C. The New Acoustics1. Nature 123, 586–587 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/123586b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/123586b0