Savart wheel
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title:
Savart wheel
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The Savart wheel is an acoustical device named after the French physicist Félix Savart (1791–1841), which was originally conceived and developed by the English scientist Robert Hooke (1635–1703). A card held to the edge of a spinning toothed wheel will produce a tone whose pitch varies with the speed of the wheel. A mechanism of this sort, made using brass wheels, allowed Hooke to produce sound waves of a known frequency, and to demonstrate to the Royal Society in 1681 how pitch relates to frequ
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Acoustical device to generate a pitch
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savart_wheel
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2023-08-03T07:04:08Z
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