A silk merchant pioneered waveform-beating experiments in the 1830s

Evidence

The waveform beating debate began with Johann Scheibler (1777–1837), a silk merchant in Crefeld, Germany, who did some early experiments with tuning forks in the 1830s. — Eric J. Heller, Why You Hear What You Hear- An…, 2237

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Category: Factual Claims

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