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The Phonograph
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The Phonograph

  • FLEEMING JENKIN1 &
  • J. A. EWING1 

Nature volume 17, page 423 (1878)Cite this article

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WE shall be much obliged if you will allow us to draw the attention of your readers to a curious fact which the phonograph has allowed us to prove, and which we announced last Monday at a meeting of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. We have seen no mention of the fact elsewhere.

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JENKIN, F., EWING, J. The Phonograph. Nature 17, 423 (1878). https://doi.org/10.1038/017423b0

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