Tyndall, John, 1820-1893 · London : Longmans, Green · leaf 274
were notproduced by jarring or shaking the floor and walls of theroom by means of repeated concussions. Hence it is ob-vious that the pulsations of the flame were not owing toindirect vibrations propagated through the medium ofthe walls of the room to the bm-ning apparatus, but musthave been… … means of repeating the experiments of Professor Leconte ;while a more intimate knowledge of the conditions of successenables us to vary and exalt the effect in an extraordinarydegree. Before you burns a bright candle-flame, but nosound that can be produced here has any effect upon it.Though…
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