 I suppose, the Eustachian tube, and restored, with the quickness of magic, the innumerable murmurs which filled the air around me. Light, like sound, is excited by pulses or waves ; and lights of different colors, like sounds of different pitch, are excited...  A Clinical manual of the diseases of the ear - Page 42by Laurence Turnbull - 1872 - 470 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Tyndall - Sound - 1867 - 374 pages
...air around me. Light, like sound, is excited by pulses or waves ; and lights of different colours, like sounds of different pitch, are excited by different...transcends the eye; for while the former ranges over 11 octaves, but little more than a single octave is possible to the latter. The quickest vibrations... | |
 | John Tyndall - Music - 1867 - 364 pages
...and restored, with the quickness of magic, the innumerable murmurs which filled the air around me. Light, like sound, is excited by pulses or waves; and lights of different colours, like sounds of different pitch, are excited by different rates of vibration. But in its width... | |
 | John Tyndall - Sound - 1867 - 372 pages
...and restored, with the quickness of magic, the innumerable murmurs which filled the air around me. Light, like sound, is excited by pulses or waves; and lights of different colours, like sounds of different pitch, are excited by different rates of vibration. But in its width... | |
 | Gilbert Sutton - Religion and science - 1868 - 356 pages
...premising that the action of light and of sound are analogous, the same high authority informs us : " Light, like sound, is excited by pulses or waves ; and lights of different colours, like sounds of different pitch, are excited by different rates of vibration. But in its width... | |
 | Mrs. Mary Olmstead Stanton - Physiognomy - 1903 - 1396 pages
...and transcends in delicacy the operations of the eye. On this point Professor Tyndall remarks that Light, like sound, is excited by pulses or waves,...sounds of different pitch, are excited by different wave-vibration? : but in the width of perception the ear exceedingly transcends the eye, for. while... | |
 | St. Joseph B. Graham, William Edward Fitch - Medicine - 1898 - 456 pages
...little loss. Every experiment on the reflection of light has its analogue in the reflection of sound. Light, like sound, is excited by pulses or waves ;...different colors, like sounds of different pitch, are produced by different rates of vibration. But in its perception of sounds of various pitch the ear... | |
 | Mary Olmstead Stanton - Facial expression - 1913 - 1374 pages
...and transcends in delicacy the operations of the eye. On this point Professor Tyndall remarks that Light, like sound, is excited by pulses or waves,...sounds of different pitch, are excited by different wave-vibrations; but in the width of perception the ear exceedingly transcends the eye, for. while... | |
 | Mary Olmstead Stanton - Physiognomy - 1920 - 1256 pages
...and transcends in delicacy the operations of the eye. On this point Professor Tyndall remarks that Light, like sound, is excited by pulses or waves,...sounds of different pitch, are excited by different wave-vibrations ; but in the widlh of perception the ear exceedingly transcends the eye, for, while... | |
 | Mary Olmstead Stanton - Phrenology - 1924 - 1290 pages
...and transcends in delicacy the operations of the eye. On this point Professor Tyndall remarks that Light, like sound, is excited by pulses or waves,...sounds of different pitch, are excited by different wave-vibrations ; but in the width of perception the ear exceedingly transcends the eye, for, while... | |
 | Curtis Roads - Computers - 1996 - 1262 pages
...score transcription that can equally be applied to MIDI systems. The Pitch Detection Problem In the width of perception the ear exceedingly transcends...more than a single octave is possible to the latter. (JohnTyndall 1875) We can define a pitch detector (PD) or pitch estimator as a software algorithm or... | |
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