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tuning fork is something that was invented in 1711.
the year 1711
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When was tuning fork (a small fork-shaped metal object that emits a sound of one predictable known frequency, often used to tune musical instruments) an object or a class of objects that were invented on the timepoint?
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Tuning fork - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The tuning fork was invented in 1711 by British musician John Shore, Sergeant Trumpeter and Lutenist to the court, who had parts specifically written for him by both George Frideric ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuning_fork
Online Tuning Fork - Tuning Forks - Concert A - Perfect pitch
The "tuning fork" was invented by John Shore, English musician to the royal court in 1711 and had a pitch of A423.5. The numbers underneath the musical notes represent the Hertz ...
http://www.onlinetuningfork.com/
Tuning Forks, non-Koenig
The tuning fork was invented in 1711 by John Shore, a trumpeter and lutenist in the employ of the British Crown. He is supposed to have said, at the beginning of a concert, "I ...
http://physics.kenyon.edu/EarlyApparatus/Acoustics/Tuning_Fork/Tuning_Fo...
[History of the tuning fork. I: Invention of the tuning fork, its ...
THE INVENTION OF THE TUNING FORK: The tuning fork was invented in 1711 by John Shore, trumpeter and lutenist to H. Purcell and G.F. Händel in London.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9172630
Explore Whipple Collections - Historical notes: a brief chronicle ...
Amongst his many other achievements in acoustics Helmholtz performed some ingenious experiments using tuning fork-based instruments. Most notably he invented the world's first ...
http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/whipple/explore/acoustics/historicalnotes/

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