Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- LIST OF PUBLICATIONS FROM WHICH THE PAPERS HAVE BEEN EXTRACTED
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND PLATES
- New Experiments on Sound
- Explanation of the Harmonic Diagram
- Description of the Kaleidophone, or Phonic Kaleidoscope
- Experiments on Audition
- On the Resonances, or Reciprocated Vibrations of Columns of Air
- On the Transmission of Musical Sounds through, Solid Linear Conductors, and on their subsequent Reciprocation
- On the Figures obtained by strewing Sand on Vibrating Surfaces, commonly called Acoustic Figures
- An Account of some Experiments to measure the Velocity of Electricity and the Duration of Electric Light
- An account of several new Instruments and Processes for determining the Constants of a Voltaic Circuit
- On the Thermo-electric Spark
- Description of the Electro-magnetic Clock
- Enregistreur électromagnétique pour les Observations Météorologiques
- Note sur le Chronoscope électromagnétique
- An Account of some Experiments made with the Submarine Cable of the Mediterranean Electric Telegraph
- On the position of Aluminum in the Voltaic Series
- Télégraphe automatique écrivant
- On the Circumstances which influence the Inductive Discharges of Submarine Telegraphic Cables
- Description of the Telegraph Thermometer
- On a New Telegraphic Thermometer, and on the Application of the Principle of its construction to other Meteorological Indicators
- On the Augmentation of the Power of a Magnet by the reaction thereon of Currents induced by the Magnet itself
- On a cause of Error in Electroscopic Experiments
- Experimental Verification of Bernouilli's Theory of Wind Instruments
- Remarks on Purkinje's Experiments
- On the Prismatic Decomposition of Electrical Light
- Contributions to the Physiology of Vision.—Part the First. On some remarkable, and hitherto unobserved, Phenomena of Binocular Vision
- On a singular Effect of the Juxtaposition of certain Colours under particular circumstances
- On a means of determining the apparent Solar Time by the Diurnal Changes of the Plane of Polarization at the North Pole of the Sky
- Experiments on the Successive Polarization of Light, with the Description of a new Polarizing Apparatus
- Note relating to M. Foucault's new Mechanical Proof of the Rotation of the Earth
- On Fessel's Gyroscope
- On the Formation of Powers from Arithmetical Progressions
- Interpretation of an important Historical Document in Cipher
- Instructions for the Employment of Wheatstone's Cryptograph
- Reed Organ-pipes, Speaking Machines, etc
- On the Vibrations of Columns of Air in Cylindrical and Conical Tubes
- Index
- Plate Section
On a singular Effect of the Juxtaposition of certain Colours under particular circumstances
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2013
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- LIST OF PUBLICATIONS FROM WHICH THE PAPERS HAVE BEEN EXTRACTED
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND PLATES
- New Experiments on Sound
- Explanation of the Harmonic Diagram
- Description of the Kaleidophone, or Phonic Kaleidoscope
- Experiments on Audition
- On the Resonances, or Reciprocated Vibrations of Columns of Air
- On the Transmission of Musical Sounds through, Solid Linear Conductors, and on their subsequent Reciprocation
- On the Figures obtained by strewing Sand on Vibrating Surfaces, commonly called Acoustic Figures
- An Account of some Experiments to measure the Velocity of Electricity and the Duration of Electric Light
- An account of several new Instruments and Processes for determining the Constants of a Voltaic Circuit
- On the Thermo-electric Spark
- Description of the Electro-magnetic Clock
- Enregistreur électromagnétique pour les Observations Météorologiques
- Note sur le Chronoscope électromagnétique
- An Account of some Experiments made with the Submarine Cable of the Mediterranean Electric Telegraph
- On the position of Aluminum in the Voltaic Series
- Télégraphe automatique écrivant
- On the Circumstances which influence the Inductive Discharges of Submarine Telegraphic Cables
- Description of the Telegraph Thermometer
- On a New Telegraphic Thermometer, and on the Application of the Principle of its construction to other Meteorological Indicators
- On the Augmentation of the Power of a Magnet by the reaction thereon of Currents induced by the Magnet itself
- On a cause of Error in Electroscopic Experiments
- Experimental Verification of Bernouilli's Theory of Wind Instruments
- Remarks on Purkinje's Experiments
- On the Prismatic Decomposition of Electrical Light
- Contributions to the Physiology of Vision.—Part the First. On some remarkable, and hitherto unobserved, Phenomena of Binocular Vision
- On a singular Effect of the Juxtaposition of certain Colours under particular circumstances
- On a means of determining the apparent Solar Time by the Diurnal Changes of the Plane of Polarization at the North Pole of the Sky
- Experiments on the Successive Polarization of Light, with the Description of a new Polarizing Apparatus
- Note relating to M. Foucault's new Mechanical Proof of the Rotation of the Earth
- On Fessel's Gyroscope
- On the Formation of Powers from Arithmetical Progressions
- Interpretation of an important Historical Document in Cipher
- Instructions for the Employment of Wheatstone's Cryptograph
- Reed Organ-pipes, Speaking Machines, etc
- On the Vibrations of Columns of Air in Cylindrical and Conical Tubes
- Index
- Plate Section
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011First published in: 1879