Wheatstone's waves

Martin Kemp
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Nature, 1998, vol. 394, issue 6691, 327-327

Abstract: The nineteenth-century creative genius Sir Charles Wheatstone invented a wave machine and other ‘philosophical toys’ that had a serious purpose in demonstrating the laws of physics.

Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1038/28517

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