History of acoustics

1680, Robert Hooke , oxford univ, flour, bow

1738, beer glasses, glass-spiel, verrillon (also in india, the jal tarang, much older)

1748, Leonard Euler, trig series

1761, Ben Franklin, then glass harmonium
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1787, Ernst Chladni (1756 -- 1827)
	 the nodal lines and antinodes, physics of sound, acoustics, sand, bow

1807,  Joseph Fourier (1768 -- 1830) heat equation

1811-16, Sophie Germain (1776 -- 1831) chladni contest


Refs:
Abraham, MS#47, 1988, High Frontiers: Visual Musical Instruments; also ms105sec2

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