Fun with Physics: Listening to a Spoon, 1880

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This is one of a series of images from six-part article in Nature in 1880 called "Physics without Apparatus".  It is actually a fun series in a Victorian-science-high jinx sort of way, and this image is a little more fun than most, especially removed from their context. In-context, this gentleman is experiencing teh sound of church bells by bumping the spoon suspended from his ears on hempen lines lightly against the table's edge; out-of-context, it looks like...