Tuning-forks Sentence Examples

Or, if the same plate be moved in contact with two tuning-forks, we shall, by comparing the number of sinuosities in the one trace with that in the other, be enabled to assign the ratio of the corresponding numbers of vibrations per second.

The motion of the plate may be simply produced by dropping it between two vertical grooves, the tuning-forks being properly fixed to a frame above.

The waves may be generated by electrically maintained tuning-forks from which dippers touch the surface; but special arrangements are needed for rendering them visible.

If the rates of vibration of the two tuning-forks at the two stations could be maintained precisely the same, the two arms would rotate in synchronism, but as this uniform vibration cannot be exactly A / 4 3/ Line /‘ --- /4 --  ?

The phenomena of beats may be easily observed with two organpipes put slightly out of tune by placing the hand near the open end of one of them, with two musical strings on a resonant chest, or with two tuning-forks of the same pitch mounted on their resonance boxes, or held over a resonant cavity (such as a glass jar), one of the forks being put out of tune by loading one prong with a small lump of beeswax.

Tuning fork therapy uses calibrated tuning forks to relieve stress in the muscles of the body.

The tuning forks are applied to specific acupuncture and acupressure points on the body.

The tuning forks work by transmitting sound frequencies through the body.

The largest complaints by users of tuning forks is that, especially when trying to tune a guitar, the piece is cumbersome to use.

In addition to its strong history, Bulova is also the purveyor of a number of innovations in the watch world, most notably the use of tuning forks to keep accurate time.

One of their most famous innovations is the use of resonating tuning forks in the Accutron line.

These chimes have been hand tuned using tuning forks.