“…In this review several methods of sound velocity measurements, matched to the widespread applications, will be reviewed briefly. General information about acoustics, especially sound fields, transducers and applied techniques, has already been presented in numerous monographs [4,71,72,74,[76][77][78][86][87][88][89][90][91][92][93][94], book contributions [70,73,79,[95][96][97] and reviews [5,75,98,99]. Early benchmark publications are referred to, for instance, in [70,76,78,86,87,95].…”