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KONIECPOLSKI, STANISLAUS (1591-1646)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 894 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KONIECPOLSKI, See also:STANISLAUS (1591-1646) , See also:Polish soldier, was the most illustrious member of an See also:ancient Polish See also:family which rendered See also:great services to the See also:Republic. Educated at the See also:academy of See also:Cracow, he learned the See also:science of See also:war under the 894 See also:nucleus for the construction of a still more elaborate tonometer. While the range of the old apparatus was only between 128 and 4096 vibrations a second, the lowest See also:fork of the new one made only 16 vibrations a second, while the highest gave a See also:sound too shrill to be perceptible by the human See also:ear. See also:Konig will also be remembered as the inventor and constructor of many other beautiful pieces of apparatus for the investigation of acoustical problems, among which may be mentioned his See also:wave-See also:sirens, the first of which was shown at See also:Philadelphia in 1876. His See also:original See also:work dealt, among other things, with See also:Wheatstone's sound-figures, the characteristic notes of the different vowels, manometric flames, &c.; but perhaps the most important of his researches are those devoted to the phenomena produced by the interference of two tones, in which he controverted the views of H. von See also:Helmholtz as to the existence of summation and difference tones. He died in See also:Paris on the 2nd of See also:October 19or.

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