On a Peculiar Class of Acoustical Figures; and on certain Forms assumed

by groups of particles upon vibrating elastic Surfaces by Michael Faraday

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FIRST PRINTING IN EXCEEDINGLY RARE ORIGINAL SHEETS of one of Faraday’s most important papers: his experiments with sound vibrations that facilitated his revolutionary discovery of the production of electricity by electromagnetic induction. “In the spring of 1831 Faraday began to work with Charles later Sir Charles Wheatstone on the theory of sound, another vibrational phenomenon. He was particularly fascinated by the patterns known as

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