Abstract

The modern ability to visualize sound pressure waveforms using electroacoustic transducers began with the development of the vacuum tube amplifier, and has steadily improved as better electrical amplification devices have become available. Before electoral amplification was available; however, a significant body of acoustic pressure measurements had been made using the phonodeik, a device developed by Dayton C. Miller in the first decade of the twentieth century. The phonodeik employs acoustomechanical transduction to rotate a small mirror that reflects an optical beam to visualize the pressure waveform. This presentation will review the device and some of the discoveries made with it.

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