On Captain Parry’s and Lieutenant Foster’s experiments on the velocity of sound

In this paper the author institutes a comparison between the results of the experiments on the velocity of sound made by Captain Parry and Lieutenant Foster in the arctic regions, and those deduced from the theoretical formula of Laplace. At the temperature of —17°·72 of Fahrenheit, and with a barom...

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Published in:Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: The Royal Society 1833
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspl.1815.0335
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