Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-08
young lady will be able to play on the piano

young lady will be able to play on the piano
and set her fathers mill to grinding
There is no need to stop at what the fair
pianist will be able to accomplish for her
long-suffering friends and relations when
Mr.. KeeIy's sympathetic attractive force
comes into every day use. The fact is there
is nothing to show us where to stop; il Mr.
Keely is able to bring down the power
which holds the planets together he can
accomplish anything he likes. We are not
at all sure that we would not sacrifice
our finger joints, few of our ribs,
an eye, and some other things as Mr.. Keely
has done, for the possession of new and
unlimited motive power. OF the scientific
phases of this discovery we do not in this
place care to treat; that the sympathetic
negative associates molecules just as the
sympathetic positive associates them, and
that a copper ball, half pint of fearful and
wonderful Schuylkill water, silk thread
and some tenpenny nails can at the instance
OF harp move continents, we are ready to
admit for the occasion. Let us look at
some OF the possibilities of Mr.. Keely's
discovery.
1t will be possible, as DR.. Leidy says, for
the cherubic girl to thump piano and
make good -four by the same exercise. The
young man who has burning passion for
the flute will no longer be pariah wander
ing among the attics, if he can drive a stone
crusher with his piping of '1n the
Cleaning" Street railways will be revolu-
rad ho ipfo Of he
road will sit in his Office and whistle all the
motive power the cars need. Probably the
superintendent however, will only have to
see that somebody else whistles. The old
phrase. "Whistle and she'll come to you,"
will have literal truth. When a man
wants a certain woman to wife he will SIM
ply have to whistle for her, and unless she
whistles "down brakes she will have to go.
In fact whistling will become a most valu-
able art. This is somewhat disadvantageous
to women, for thev do not take kindly to
whistling, Still they can fall back on their
voices, which are perhaps more generally
cultivated than mems. And as we under
stand the origin OF Mr.. Keely's mysterious
power to be intimately associated with the
vibrations of sound, it may be that the
human voice with its wonderful yibratory
qualities is to be the principal locomotive
and engine of the future. The range of the
human voice is three octaves, and each note
represents from eighty-seven to seven hun
dred and sixty-eight vibrations of sound
per second, these vibrations translated into
power would, We should imagine, make
every man his own locomotive. More
than ever will the owners of voices of |
great compass have reason to congratulate
PATHS voice, for example, as
sumes a new value. The phenomenally high |
note that Nilsson was able to take in ''The |
Magic Flute" represents thirteen hundred |
sixty-ive vibrations in second. The value |
of such note in motive power we do not |
know, but enough, it may be surmised, to
run sewing machine whole afternoon.
Looking through a crack in the door, as
we have but done, enough is seen to con-
vince anyone of the wondrous results of the
new Keely motive power if it notes for all
mankind. When the door is flung wide
open the world will be dazzled and dumb
founded, we do not doubt