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The Library
Dick Stern
Applied Research Laboratory, The Pennsylvania State University State College, Pennsylvania 16804
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SCIENTIFIC PAPERS
Volumes I–VI 1869–1919
Lord Rayleigh
(John William Strutt)
The Scientific Papers of Lord Rayleigh are now available on CD ROM from the Acoustical Society of America (http://asa.aip.org/rayleigh.pdf). The CD contains over 440 papers covering topics on sound, mathematics, gener- al mechanics, hydrodynamics, optics, properties of gasses. Files are in pdf format and readable with Adobe Acrobat® reader
Lord Rayleigh was indisputably the single most significant contributor to the world's literature in acoustics. In addition to his epochal two volume treatise, The Theory of Sound, he wrote some 440 articles on acoustics and relat- ed subjects during the fifty years of his distinguished research career. He is generally regarded as one of the best and clearest writers of scientific articles of his generation, and his papers continue to be read and extensively cited by today’s researchers in acoustics.
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