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In a curious inquiry, a reader sparks a cosmic conversation by questioning whether a tuning fork struck in the void of space could forever produce vibrations. Is that possible? Before we delve into ...

MR. HERMANN SMITH, in a letter in NATURE last week, commenting upon my paper read before the Physical Society on June 10, of which you gave a short report, offers some very cogent experiments in ...

IN NATURE last week there is a short description of Mr. W. F. Stanley's well-devised experiments, by which the tuningfork “is shown not to depend upon a vibrating ventroid.” ...

[Willem Koopman aka Secretbatcave] was looking at a master clock he has in his collection which was quite a noisy device, but wanted to use the matching solenoid slave clock mechanism he had to hand.

A dozen or more metal implements are arranged in neat rows on the table next to the bed. They look like something Frankenstein might have had applied to his monster's neck. I begin to feel nervous.

A 128Hz medical tuning fork appeared in my collection thanks to a friend! Have you ever used a tuning fork? According to Wikipedia, the tuning fork was invented in 1711 by British musician John Shore, ...

Engineers filled a glass tube bent like a tuning fork, kept vibrating by a circuit at its resonance frequency, with simulated stomach and intestine contents and passed an over-the-counter time-release ...