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  • Acoustics: a carbon microphone invented by D.E. Hughes. Wood engraving by Baud after Broux.
  • Athanasii Kircheri ... Phonurgia nova sive conjugium mechanico-physicum artis et natvrae paranympha phonosophia concinnatum. Quâ universa sonorum natura, proprietas, vires effectuúmq prodigiosorum causœ, novâ & multiplici experimentorum exhibitione enucleantur; instrumentorum acusticorum, machinarúmq ad naturœ prototypon adaptandarum, tum ad sonos ad remotissima spatia propagandos, tum in abditis domorum recessibus per occultioris ingenii machinamenta clam palámve sermocinandi modus & ratio traditur, tum denique in bellorum tumultibus singularis hujusmodi organorum usus, & praxis per novam phonologiam describitur / [Athanasius Kircher].
  • Athanasii Kircheri ... Phonurgia nova sive conjugium mechanico-physicum artis et natvrae paranympha phonosophia concinnatum. Quâ universa sonorum natura, proprietas, vires effectuúmq prodigiosorum causœ, novâ & multiplici experimentorum exhibitione enucleantur; instrumentorum acusticorum, machinarúmq ad naturœ prototypon adaptandarum, tum ad sonos ad remotissima spatia propagandos, tum in abditis domorum recessibus per occultioris ingenii machinamenta clam palámve sermocinandi modus & ratio traditur, tum denique in bellorum tumultibus singularis hujusmodi organorum usus, & praxis per novam phonologiam describitur / [Athanasius Kircher].
  • Athanasii Kircheri ... Phonurgia nova sive conjugium mechanico-physicum artis et natvrae paranympha phonosophia concinnatum. Quâ universa sonorum natura, proprietas, vires effectuúmq prodigiosorum causœ, novâ & multiplici experimentorum exhibitione enucleantur; instrumentorum acusticorum, machinarúmq ad naturœ prototypon adaptandarum, tum ad sonos ad remotissima spatia propagandos, tum in abditis domorum recessibus per occultioris ingenii machinamenta clam palámve sermocinandi modus & ratio traditur, tum denique in bellorum tumultibus singularis hujusmodi organorum usus, & praxis per novam phonologiam describitur / [Athanasius Kircher].
  • Athanasii Kircheri ... Phonurgia nova sive conjugium mechanico-physicum artis et natvrae paranympha phonosophia concinnatum. Quâ universa sonorum natura, proprietas, vires effectuúmq prodigiosorum causœ, novâ & multiplici experimentorum exhibitione enucleantur; instrumentorum acusticorum, machinarúmq ad naturœ prototypon adaptandarum, tum ad sonos ad remotissima spatia propagandos, tum in abditis domorum recessibus per occultioris ingenii machinamenta clam palámve sermocinandi modus & ratio traditur, tum denique in bellorum tumultibus singularis hujusmodi organorum usus, & praxis per novam phonologiam describitur / [Athanasius Kircher].
  • Acoustics: an Edison phonograph with a carbon microphone. Coloured wood engraving after J.T. Balcomb.
  • Athanasii Kircheri ... Phonurgia nova sive conjugium mechanico-physicum artis et natvrae paranympha phonosophia concinnatum. Quâ universa sonorum natura, proprietas, vires effectuúmq prodigiosorum causœ, novâ & multiplici experimentorum exhibitione enucleantur; instrumentorum acusticorum, machinarúmq ad naturœ prototypon adaptandarum, tum ad sonos ad remotissima spatia propagandos, tum in abditis domorum recessibus per occultioris ingenii machinamenta clam palámve sermocinandi modus & ratio traditur, tum denique in bellorum tumultibus singularis hujusmodi organorum usus, & praxis per novam phonologiam describitur / [Athanasius Kircher].
  • Acoustics: an Edison wax cylinder recorder. Wood engraving.
  • Acoustics: sonic phenomena and musical instruments. Coloured engraving by J. Emslie, 1850, after himself.
  • Acoustics: an electrically-powered [?] Edison-type phonograph demonstrated at an exhibition [in Paris?]. Wood engraving.

Works from the collections

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    Sound / by John Tyndall.

    Tyndall, John, 1820-1893. | Date: 1883
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    Sound and hearing / by S.S. Stevens, Fred Warshofsky and the editors of Time-Life Books ; consulting editors, René Dubos, Henry Margenau, C.P. Snow.

    Stevens, S. S. (Stanley Smith), 1906-1973. | Date: [1970], ©1970
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    On the principles of sound; their application in the construction of public buildings; particularly to the new houses of Parliament; and assimilation with the mechanism of the human ear / By A.W. Webster.

    Webster, Alphonso William. | Date: 1840
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    Acoustics: a carbon microphone invented by D.E. Hughes. Wood engraving by Baud after Broux.

    Broux. | Reference: 47038i
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    Le son : cours expérimental fait à l'Institution royale / par John Tyndall.

    Tyndall, John, 1820-1893. | Date: 1869
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