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Velocity of Sound in Free Air

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A PREVIOUS communication1 described an oscillographic method for measuring the velocity of sound in air. Further experiments have been made during the past four years, with the aid of a grant from the Research Committee of King‘s College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and during 1947 a series of 940 determinations was made in the Bute Hall of the University of Glasgow.

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  1. Lenihan, J. M. A., Nature, 152, 662 (1943).

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LENIHAN, J. Velocity of Sound in Free Air. Nature 162, 656–657 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162656b0

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