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IN the summer of 1842 I attended the lectures of Dr. William Reid, brother of Dr. David Boswell Reid, the celebrated ventilator of the House of Commons, in the great barn-like classrooms of the latter chemist. In the practical class we produced sonorous flame vibrations in iron tubes three or four inches in diameter and about 2 ft. long, held over similar tubes covered with wire gauze. These instruments were the property of Dr. D. B. Reid, and produced a noise like the roar of a lion.
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WRIGHT, T. Sounding Flames. Nature 10, 286 (1874). https://doi.org/10.1038/010286c0
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