Hearing
DEC 01, 1948
DOI: 10.1063/1.3066232
The effects of sound can be transmitted to the inner ear in two different ways: by moving the eardrum and its attached ossicles (air conduction), and by vibrating the whole skull, which vibrations are then transferred to the inner ear (bone conduction).
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Georg V. Békésy. Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
© 1948 American Institute of Physics
