Third-graders at Jordak Elementary School did a science experiment on sound, according to a release from Cardinals Schools. The experiment showed the students the science of sound by using an aluminum ...

Two identical tuning forks mounted on resonance boxes are struck with rubber mallets to show they have identical tones. A small piece of putty is added to one tuning fork to alter it's frequency. When ...

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, ...

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 ...

High school science teacher Sam Terfa wanted to demonstrate a fundamental physics principle: resonant frequency. To do so, he found the best singer at Minnehaha Academy and had him serenade a wine ...

THE tuning-fork, when used for making time traces in chronographic work, is usually made to vibrate, by bowing with a violin bow, or by percussion, or by rapidly removing a metal block from between ...

In his latest Atlantic piece, Wayne Curtis explores a new-agey question: can the vibrations of a tuning fork improve a cocktail? No matter how inventive a bartender may be when it comes to choosing ...

Long before Apple, Garmin, Timex and Casio, Accutron invented the world’s first fully electronic watch. In 1960, Bulova’s subsidiary introduced the Spaceview with a Tuning Fork movement, which used a ...

The Royal Society is a self-governing Fellowship of many of the world's most distinguished scientists drawn from all areas of science, engineering and medicine, and is the oldest scientific academy in ...