Some of you might be familiar with a Rubens’ Tube . In short, it’s a tube-like contraption that you poke holes in, insert flammable gas through, and add sound waves to. When you set it on fire, the ...

The Rijke tube is a very simple device that demonstrates the principle of thermoacoustics quite clearly. Construction is quite straightforward, simply place a metal gauze at the bottom end of a tube, ...

WALTON, Ind. — As AC/DC's "Back in Black" thumped through a speaker in Andrew Berryman's classroom recently, physics students saw the notes come alive through flames. They were watching a Rubens' Tube ...

The Rubens’ Tube is a lit gas jet attached via a tube to a stereo speaker. When the speaker kicks into gear, the changes in pressure along the tube make the the ...

Here’s a fiery project which [Patrick] calls his Pyro Jam Can. It’s the simplest Rubens’ Tube build that we can think of. For the uninformed, a Rubens’ tube uses flammable gas to reveal wave forms ...

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A Rubens' tube is a pipe with holes in it. You put a flammable gas through the pipe, and then light it on fire. Kind of like the pipes in your gas-powered barbecue. But what happens when you play ...

The latest installment of Veritasium is all about the “Pyro-Board.” This snazzy contraption is a mesmerizing, planar take on the Rubens’ tube – a perforated tube of gas – hooked up to a gas jet and a ...