Introduction to Tuning Forks from the National Museum of American History

Meet Steven Turner, curator at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, as he discusses the Smithsonian's scientific instrument collection. This video focuses the science behind and uses for tuning forks, including demonstrations of tuning forks on resonators, the Grand Tonometer, a medical tuning fork, and a beats apparatus. This is the third video in a series of five.

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I think that the statement about the concerning production of beats as a destructive use of the tuning fork, needs further exploration.