The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-09-04

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: with IL. and ! would strongly recommend
this instr-Tn.nt To those Dhysicl! culture
/ academic where the Strsuu1u. resort
( :Or muscular and fat-relucing exercise.
1t was AZ the university / also learned
hat the Syr"s'oI!c ueniuiuTIi would show
IN. ,ITi'l'S rotation 10y Simply compound
1 ing tn. moments. IN diff-rcT!; planes. Their.
I - Z small Increase OF iner;!! superimpOs-'!
! on the pendulum Whi-! causes II ~ Lag
. behind other loose bodies. That ! prove!
twenty wears Afterwards b. mounting "a
I s,roscope GA gImcais- giving perfect rec
I dom OF motion H. rh:rs planes anil fNinE
. the slr.ilals 20 Il Hight carriage placed fr".
! OF. rails running east and west.
The wheels. beng driven n two plans
/ simultaneously. 80 increased th- inertia ~
I III. cartilage that the eaEih'- motion wa
! distinctly seen by the carriage running
I slowly toward tn= west withOu; any ai'-
/ parent motive force other than the IN
! crease OF inertia. which caused n" Garth
! surface 10 run faster toward the .q-; than
| the carriage. and 50 led one {" ihInk she
| carriage was running toward TIE west. ~
| isat tie motion OF the carriage was an IL
! ltIsior.
SOAIE HIGH AUTHORITY
! Lord Kelvin IN his lectures on tie sub
I j.ct O. eTavitati5n was always most en-
I phatic In his belief that s-.ei!ce would yet
discover another and EC-. rational cause
! for the attraction for falling bodies and
He said that Newton hi;ns.l, only Used
I attraction As a mathematical metaphor 10
explain the piierOTn.na. Lord Kelvin him
as exhibited ~ smoke rings and Jsed 90
impress upon the students the importance
Of being able TO prove that elasticity VAS
q mode OF motion.
He said II that could he proved sn. Z
similar way TO heat as mode OF motion.
tfiat would De the greatest and grsnlcst
discovery that the world had even known
Nov. that IS the discovery ! have made
For ten years I have been r-y:nE 10 get
Lord Kelvin and over hundred prornineIt
scientists TO allow me To Eie them she
proofs. SCt they Will not permit he 20 CIV.
Them the demonstration.
AT the university I was laugh; ;he
Physical theory OF graritatior. tie laws
OF motion ard theoretical applied Elec;Ian-
&c, such axe usually tagGi To- zt4G..ts
who are studying 10. civil engineers. Only:
instead o: the usua! two wears course.
tool. four years coUrs-. -dEins, the high
Of courses Of mathematics and natural
philosophy and IN" laboratory cou.rs- in
chemistry and natural philosophy
AFTER receiving my diploma a. a c.v!l
engineer In is.0 qualified In is.2 Ger
t.iicatetl mine manager. AID for fifteen
years thereafter VS. too busy in working
my way W. in ny profession to devote,
much time to theoretical physics.
During my leisure On my ranch took
up the study OF the idea which had been
dormant since ] left the university. and
with what rough apparatus | had Gevel-
oped IL 10 successful issue.
With the assurance Of Lord Kelvin that
elasticity would Vet 10 proved 20 be
mode Of motion and his empha deal denu.i-
citation OF the doctrine OF action At
called. and the DORMANT idea that BY com
pounding momenta con-ec1tiyelv ard
trsnsversely k,netic stability would be
dowcd with nothing but inertia and motion
with that idea ever present j set to
work and the most wonderful truth was
Although Cor fifteen years after ieav-
inr the university had 10 time TO study
and experiment with the k!ner!c impress
sion received at the university. yet the
impression left IN my mind was alivs dur
ing all that time. noticing and collecting
cases which seemed TO chow that mo-
versely without the one motion interf-r
ing with the other. and % inducing q kind
Of resilient reaction
Daring some experiments with water
turbines I noticed the extra power con-
sunced Under certain conditions when the
water was forced TO change its direction
showed that no power shosli be consumed
IN changing the direction Of the water cur
rent unless from friction.
Then / saw the difference between
changing currents BY DETECTING stationary
blades and an !rnpingirs force. and every
thing went to show that the compounding
was q resilient reaction which was con
trary TO theory.
81 noticed how . bicycle In motion on It's
own wheel had a stability which IL Gid aot
have when IL was carried with the same
speed on q railway train 1 noticed how a
cricket ball was given q curve by the
was leaving the hand. / noticed how 4 iet
Of water could be made 10 describe curves
by manipulating the nokzIs properly.
some FAMOUS ERRORS.
And In reading Sir Isaac Sewton's pa
per On Light. read before the Royal So
ciesy. his statement that the tennis ball
II struck sideways In its courae would de-
scribe n wavy line Afterwards made me
often wonder why Newton did not get the
kinetio idea Then. In driving . current
az least 30 per cent perforated tho sta
bii.,y Of the water prevents Il from falling
These all left tho impression on NY
mind that Galileo's principle Of fuperpo-
sition was wrong. and II that principle
was wrong then Newton's paralleloRram
must also be wrong. and II that was wrong
then some OF Newton's laws OF motion /
were wrong. as I found Afterwards was
'One OF tine experimental methods by !
which tested the elasticity OF motion at 1
the same time showing the true cause OF |
manner:
ITO produce gravity by mechanical |
means without attraction take an electric |
motor Of any power from one-half-hors- 1
power upward and substitute a hollow for /
the solid axle from one and one-half inch l
diameter upward To tho end Of the hoi- l
az" cAi' IA n S~A< AS<SsS W sSANS VI !
otherwise.
AT tho other end Of the hollow axle |
have a free union joint. so that tho nozzle
can rotate with the motor. while the
water pipe IS clamped fast Have bearings
for the motor axle.
Have stopcock close 20 and behind /
the clamp. Have O. water power fuf-
fcient 10 force a Jet OF water through the
pipe. hollow axle and nozzle with q con-
slant velocity OF at least IO feet per sec
ond. Then by driving the motor at 80 10
SO revolutions per minute when the water
Is letting the water Will form a vortex In
space similar 20 that OF spiral nebula
But when the balls ara projected. either
by the water or compressed air. at 100 feet |
per second. while the nozzle f. rotating a,
orbits like planets. while describing cork
screw paths IN space.
SUNS PROPER MOTION.
by supposinG the earth TO descrIbe a
corkscrew path free from the suns at
traction IL becomes easy 20 calculate the
suns proper motion by a simple mathe-
NAUTICAL formula and by that means
have found IL to correspond with the rate
given by Campbell OF tho Lick Observa-
tory. from several wears work with the
Nils spectograph. being nearly thirteen
miles Der second
This Is very simple and exceedingly |
attractive experiment. which may DO car
He'd out with one hail and an explosive |
and which may be directed az
my angie, but vertically IL gives the most
-esular orbit / recommend as many read |
re az possible who can carry it out TO do |
20 and take photographs OF the hei.coidal |
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