 Rossneath, near Glasgow, there is an echo that repeats a tune played with a trumpet three times completely and distinctly. Near Rome there was one that repeated what a person said five times. At Brussels there is an echo that answers 15 times.  Scientific Dialogues,: Of mechanics - Page 124by Jeremiah Joyce - 1828Full view - About this book
 | Jeremiah Joyce - 1815 - 680 lehte
...CONVERSATION XXXVL =BC Of the Echo. FATHER. The following are among the most celebrated echoes. At Rosneath, near Glasgow, there is an echo that repeats a tune...or 11 times very distinctly. Between Coblentz and Buigcn an echo is celebrated as different from most others. In common echoes, the repetition is not... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - 1815 - 282 lehte
...CONVERSATION XIV. Of the Echo. FATHER. The following are among the most celebrated echoes. At Rosneath, near Glasgow, there is an echo that repeats a tune...echo repeats 10 or 11 times very distinctly. Between Cobleatz and Bingen an echo is celebrated as different from most others. In common echoes the repetition... | |
 | 1822 - 494 lehte
...echoes, not noticed in your last : — at Rosneath, near Glasgow, in Scotland, there is an echo which repeats a tune, played with a trumpet, three times completely and distinctly. Authors mention a tower at Cyprus, where the echo repeated seven times. There is an echo at Brussels... | |
 | Thomas Byerley - 1823 - 528 lehte
...the north side of Shepley Church, in Sussex, which will repeat distincily 21 syllables. At Rosneath, near Glasgow, there is an echo that repeats a tune...with a trumpet three times completely and distinctly. At the Sepulchre of Metella, wife of Crassius, there was an echo which repeated a sentence five times.... | |
 | 1823 - 494 lehte
...the north side of Shepley Church, in Sussex, which will repeat distincily 21 syllables. At Ilosneath, near Glasgow, there is an echo that repeats a tune played with n trumpet three times completely and distinctly. At the Sepulchre of Metella, wife of Crassius, there... | |
 | Levi Washburn Leonard - 1827 - 398 lehte
...sound returns obliquely in the same direction. This reflected sound is called an echo. At Rosneath, near Glasgow, there is an echo that repeats a tune,...a trumpet, three times, completely and distinctly. At Brussels there is an echo that answers fifteen times; and in Italy, near Milan, the sound of a pistol... | |
 | Levi Washburn Leonard - 1830 - 350 lehte
...sound returns obliquely in the same direction. This reflected sound is called an echo. At Rosneath, near Glasgow, there is an echo that repeats a tune,...a trumpet, three times, completely and distinctly. At Brussels there is an echo that answers fifteen times ; and in Italy, near Milan, the sound of a... | |
 | 1842 - 496 lehte
...potassium is apt to take fire. Echaes. — The following are among the most remarkable. At Rosneath, near Glasgow, there is an echo that repeats a tune...said five times. At Brussels there is an echo that answered fifteen times. At Thornbury Castle, Gloucestershire, an echo repeats ten or eleven times very... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - 1852 - 400 lehte
...subject to-morrow. CONVERSATION XIV. OF THE ECHO. F. The most celebrated echoes are the following. — At Rossneath, near Glasgow, there is an echo that...with a trumpet three times completely and distinctly. In Gloucestershire, at Thornbury Castle, an echo repeats 10 or 1 1 times distinctly. Near Rome there... | |
 | David Williams - 1858 - 388 lehte
...thunders reverberate from the rock, and die, in endless peels, along the distant mountains !" At Rosneath, near Glasgow, there is an echo that repeats a tune played with a trumpet three times distinctly and completely. At Thornborough Castle, Gloucestershire, an echo repeats ten or eleven times... | |
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