Entry #10. Waves
Hello all and welcome to my tenth and final post, for todays topic I will be talking about the origin of sound waves and their initial discovery. Dating back to the year 1681 Robert Hooke, an English physicist, was the first to produce an actual sound wave of a known frequency. By using a rotating cog wheel Hooke was even able to measure the waves frequency, isn't that fascinating! But in the year 1696 A French physicist and mathematician who went by the name Joseph Sauveur coined the term acoustique (acoustics in English) for the so called "science of sound". Although these were very ground breaking discoveries we can't shy away from the humans who came before these geniuses. Aristotle a Greek philosopher who lived from 384 BC to 322 BC claimed that sound traveled in waves, he also claimed that the quality of sound would be unchanged and would travel as far as the waves...
