Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-11-19
1.-THE NEW PHYSICS"
SOUND
BY JOSEPH BATTEIL
SOUND
BY JOSEPH BATTELL.
THE author OF this book writes

minor circular of THE NEW PHYSICS recently
published.
"A agreed that sounds all sounds, made by shock
friction But this shock requires pro-
duce it; and by experiment. have prongs
of tunngork by prongs fork
E. first combined sound of the forks hitting
each other.
If now, listen separately to the forks, will
they both vibrating and throwing different sounds
c and the other E.
"y further experiment find the if three forks
struck together and presume would be with any num-
ber and also with any number of bodies which might assist in
making shock This very complete that sound
made by shock instantly completed different bodies
causing shock thrown by them into the a-that
thrown off by each body being different each body
ferent- thence finding its way the auditory nerves of
sentent beings
From this would appear that always when shock
by collision more according the number of
bodies struck produced which, under ordinary circum-
stances we hear combined sound almost instantly gone
its journey all directions. In this the
certainly the result OF the collision shock And
appear again that each body least in deciding the
character of the sound sounds by shock That is
these sounds made in all the bodies engaged
making shock are different constitute
when finished different sounds.
And thus the material of the sounds of the made
by shock the sounds themselves, sound being
completed by the bodies the wod-a those capable of
helping produce shock That these bodies sepaatev
machinery the sounds from the
by thus particular character of
each decided by the body which enters and passes
through And this that every body interested in the
production sound produces different from
any other, unless that of a similar body.
made bV shock from which all sounds
made is nfnesimal particles OF electrical proven
by the experiment with vibrating plates first by the
great electrician very able philosopher and after
ward by Sir William Wheatstone Ga very complete
which is given in THE New PHYSICS PIP. 234-24o) that
these PARTICLES which Mr. Wheaonc calls copusclcs vary
size and number the pitch Unquestonaby this vari
produces the difference sounds And unqueonaby
from the FORM including nerstccs, of the bodies
which produce the finished sound
% ''Just all the different kinds of lumber by
ml,-board panks, shingles many other
knd-ae made from logs; the different varieties of
wooden goods wool; varieties
of any particular thing from the material that thing
consists are made from the same or
similar material And therefore they all have the
speed for this material is electrical its own
speed which constant during the existence the
which makes with the law of their go in all
directions though they frequently change their
And by passing through bodies the nesces of bodies pro-
ducng the shock the material of which all composed
shaped mixed in such way produce particular
sounds All Of which readily done, and in with
Universal Law OF Nature, for the manufacture varieties
of things Nothing could be simpler, every step has
been demonstrated But in is there any
than be made the material produced by
The discovery that every shock makes in
stead of there engaged
the shock will require the following circu
lar referred to:
"Ist paragraph, Sd line, ior body read bodies.
nth paragraph instead vibration of the body
caused by shock produce all sounds shock and the
action of the bodies by which shock takes place produce all