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IN the January issue of the Journal of Scientific Instruments, Mr. T. Smith, of the National Physical Laboratory, raises the question whether it is fair to Foucault to continue to describe the method he introduced for observing small optical differences of path by the name “schlieren” used for the method by Töpler in his paper of 1866 on the motion of singing flames. Messrs. Taylor and Waldram, who had used the term ‘schlieren’ in their paper in the December issue of the Journal, point out that Töpler in giving the method that name made no claim to its invention but only to an extension of the use of it to general scientific investigations. Would striae or streaks be adequate equivalents of, and suitable alternatives for, schlieren?
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Schlieren, Striæ or Streaks?. Nature 133, 791 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133791c0
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