Sound Reflection and Refraction

More than one recent disaster at sea, still unexplained, has pointed to the necessity of reconsidering certain accepted dogmas relating to the transmission of sound waves, and official reports of a disquieting nature from look-out stations have called once and again for serious investigation of the...

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Published in:Scientific American 1899-10, Vol.LXXXI. (No. 16.), p.246
Main Author: BY REV. JOHN M. BACON, M. A., F. R. A. S.
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
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Summary:More than one recent disaster at sea, still unexplained, has pointed to the necessity of reconsidering certain accepted dogmas relating to the transmission of sound waves, and official reports of a disquieting nature from look-out stations have called once and again for serious investigation of the anomalous behavior under special conditions of such sound signals as are commonly in use at sea...
ISSN:0036-8733
1946-7087