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Word: acoustician (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1932-1932
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...Richard Arthur Surtees Paget's "most extrawd'nry" experience in that bathroom and his clever solution of the mystery, which he promptly reported to Nature. Few men in England could have resolved the matter so promptly as did this inquisitive sexagenarian baronet, barrister, linguist, musician, acoustician. Sir Richard's musical ear told him that the tune he heard that evening was in E major, with A sharp substituted for A flat. "The melody," he relates, "did not slur up & down as when the wind whistles through a cranny, but changed by sharply defined steps from note...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Whistling in a Bathtub | 11/28/1932 | See Source »

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