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CATALOGUE. — ACUSTICS, PROPAGATION OF SOUND. 



Battle of Cressy 1346 

 Gunpowder used at Lyons in Brabant. 



Wiegleb 1356 

 Muskets used at the siege of Arras 1414 

 Shipping improved, and port holes in- 

 vented by Decliarges 1500 

 Air guns made at Nuremberg 1560 

 Bombs invented at Venloo 1588 

 New River brought to London I6l4 

 Guericke invented the air pump 1654 

 Hooke finished his air pump 1658 

 Savery had erected steam engines I696 

 Chain shot invented by Dewit I666 

 Balloons invented by Monigolfier 1783 

 Lunardi ascended in Moorfields 1784 



The Society for the encouragement of arts still offer pre- 

 miums to the inventors of new hydraulic machines for irri- 

 gation and other purposes, as well as for the improvement of 

 ventilators. 



ACUSTICS. «OBND IN GENERAL. 



•Aristotle. 



Bacon Sylva sylvarum. 



Contains many experiments. 



*Mersenne Haimonie universelle. f. Paris, 



1636. M.B. 

 Mersenni cogitala physicomathematica. 4. 



Par. 1644. M. B. 

 •Galilei Discorsi mathematichi. 16.98. 

 Acustics. Ph. tr. Abr. I. v. 457. IV. iv. 346. 



X. iv. 160. 

 Bartolide] sono. I68O. M. B. 

 Bishop of Ferns on sound. Ph. tr. 1684. XIV". 



471. 

 Perraulton sound. A. P. I. 145. 

 Carre on the production of sound. A. P. 



1704. H. 88. 

 Lahire's experiments on sound. A. P. 1716. 



26e, 264. H. 66. 

 On numbering the vibrations of sound. C. 



Bon. L 180. 



From the sound of a wheel with teeth, striking the air 



only. 



Haller Elementa physiologiae. V. 



*Lagrange on sound. M. Taur. I. II, 



i^nVz vomschalle. 4. Berl. 1764. 



Euler. A. Berl. 1765. 



Burdach de vi aeris in sono. 4. Leipz. 1767. 



Halts Doctrina sonorum. 4. Lond. 1778. 



Funicim de sono et tono. 4. Leipz. 1779. 



Germ, in Leipz. Mag. 178 1. 

 Jones's physiological disquisitions. 4. Lond. 



1781. 

 M Young on sounds and musical strings. 8. 



Dubl. 1784. 

 Busse kleine beytr'age zur math, und phys, 



131. 

 *Chladni Entdeckungen Uberdie theorie de« 



plauges. 4. Leipz. 1787. R. I. 

 Chladni. Berl. naturf fr. 

 Chladni promises a general work on acustics. 



Hind. Arch. IH. 234. 

 fPerrolle on the vibrations of sounding bo- 

 dies. Roz. XXXV. 423. 

 *Forktl Allgemeine literatur der musik. 8. 



Leipz. 1792. 

 Suremain Missery theorie acousticomusicale. 



8. Par. 1793. 



Extr. by Lalande. Roz. XLII. I6I. 

 *Robison. Enc. Br. Art. Sound. Trumpet. 



Suppl. Art. Temperament Trumpet. 

 T. Young on sound and light. Ph. tr. 1800. 



106. Nich. V. 72. I6I. 

 Terzi del suno. 8. R. S. 



Propagation of Sound. 



See Longitudinal Vibrations. 



Papin's whistle fitted to the mouth of the 



tube of an air pump. Birch. IV. 379. 

 To show the effect of the air on the force of sound. 

 Walker on the velocity of sound. Ph. tr. I698. 



XX. 433. 



