 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - Physics - 1821 - 350 pages
...bodies are capable of producing some kind of sound by the motion they communicate to the air. Mrs. B. Those bodies are called sonorous, which produce clear,...durable sounds, such as a bell, a drum, musical strings, wind-instruments, Skc. They owe this property to their elasticity ; for an elastic body, after having... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand), Thomas P. Jones - Physics - 1826 - 286 pages
...bodies are capable of producing some kind of sound, by the motion they communicate to the air. Mrs. B. Those bodies are called sonorous, which produce clear,...a bell, a drum, musical strings, wind instruments, &c. 'rneT owe this property to their elasticity; for an elastic body, after having been struck, not... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand), John Lauris Blake - Astronomy - 1826 - 308 pages
...manner than if it had no other vehicle than the air. Mrs. B. Those bodies are called sonorous/which produce clear, distinct, regular, and durable sounds,...bell, a drum, musical strings, wind instruments,; &c. i They owe this property to their elasticity) for an elastick body, after having been struck, not... | |
 | 1832 - 650 pages
...by means of the strings in a much more perfect manner than if it had no other vehicle than the air. Bodies are called sonorous which produce clear, distinct,...a bell, a drum, musical strings, wind instruments, &c. They owe this property to their elasticity ; for an elastic body, after having been struck, not... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Physics - 1838 - 266 pages
...a gun produces a sound scarcely louder than the cracking of a whip. 423. Sonorous bodies are those which produce clear, distinct, regular, and durable sounds, such as a bell, a drum, wind instruments, musical strings, and glasses. These vibrations can be communicated to a distance... | |
 | Jane Marcet - 1839 - 544 pages
...bodies are capable of producing some kind of sound by the motion they communicate to the air. MRS. B. Those bodies are called sonorous, which produce clear,...a bell, a drum, musical strings, wind instruments, &c. They owe this property to their elasticity ; for an elastic body, after having been struck, not... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Physics - 1849 - 418 pages
...153. What causes sound? What illustrations are given to prove this? 155. Sonorous bodies are those which produce clear, distinct, regular, and durable sounds, such as a bell, a drum, wind instruments, musical strings and glasses. These vibrations can be communicated to a distance not... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Physics - 1850 - 408 pages
...153. What causes sound? What illustrations are given to prove this? 155. Sonorous bodies are those which produce clear, distinct, regular, and durable sounds, such as a bell, a drum, wind instruments, musical strings and glasses. These vibrations can be communicated to a distance not... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Physics - 1856 - 472 pages
...the cracking of a whip. What are So- 635. Sonorous bodies are those which pronorous bodies ? ^ uce clear, distinct, regular, and durable sounds, such as a bell, a drum, wind instruments, musical strings and glasses. These vibrations can be communicated to. a distance... | |
| |
... strings, in a much more perfect manner than if it had no other vehicle than the air. Caroline. That it is, certainly, for I am almost stunned by the noise. But what is a sonorous body, Mrs. B. ? for all bodies are capable of producing gome kind of... 
