Note 17 — Chapter II · Sir Samuel Morland—Dr. Dionysius Papin.
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We are informed that Morland’s Tuba Stentorphornica, or speaking-trumpet, is still to be seen at Trinity College, Cambridge. Butler, in his ‘Hudibras,’ alludes to the invention:—
“I heard a formidable voice Loud as the stentorphornic noise.”