Elements of natural philosophy (Volume 2-3) (1850)
Bartlett, W. H. C. (William Holms Chambers), 1804-1893 · New York : Barnes · leaf 139
A striking effect is obtained by making the same figure on several plates of equal size and similar form, and then so arranging them as to make one figure on umon of several a larger scale. The figure thus produced will be both a plates of equal compound and connected one, and such as may not… … ELEMENTS OF ACOUSTICS. 131 If the large square plates be held at a, touched at a, Particular case;and a bow be drawn across at &/similar compound fig-ures will be generated. Cymbals, the Chinese Tam-tam or Gong, &c, are prac- Examples;tical applications of sonorous plates. § 121. The…
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