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Cavendish Laboratory : Rayleigh's kettle drum

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<p style='text-align: justify;'>Colour photograph of Rayleigh's kettle drum. Rayleigh was the author of 'The Theory of Sound' published in the mid-1870s. He used the vibrational modes of the two-dimensional drum skin to verify his analysis of these modes.</p>

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