Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-05-27


1S77S described experiment which showed moderately
strong such that from five Bnsen cells be led
through two ampo filled with fragments OF carbon and sound
be uttered strongly the jam pot will be reproduced distinctly
although family the other In this experiment has been found
that the fragments carbon may be replaced by kind of loose
contact such microphones handful nails put each
jam-pot vibrating springs beating against metallic stops or nails
laid each other fashion, and that
similar in kind although be differing greatly in degree
duced Hence may be almost laid down general experimental
result that electric circuit conveying oerab strong
contain places of loose and and sound be pro-
duced loud enough similar sound will be heard proceeding
from B.
TO all appearance this phenomenon only altered
resistance produced at by the sound and becomes prob
in contact to make them give forth which SINH
lar sound the No satisfactory solution of this problem has
been and hopes getting information the
subject that made the following experiments
The experiments following very interesting
tive but altogether long be repeated here they occupy
nearly five pages 1t would of course be impossible to explain
any of these experiments by the unduato theory of sound
By the corpuscular they explain themselves
AS all the sounds of the world by the bodies of
the world and every different body makes different sound
these bodies contain the necessary machinery do this
and evidently this machinery is the ineces of bodies which
in bodies different In the of vibration the
of the bodies alike and therefore sound made
body, under favorable circumstances will similar
one, causing it to vibrate.
Mills by machinery varieties of things, but always
the material from which the varieties made is furnished to
the mill. Thus with wooden mills silk mills marble mills,
any kind of mills minis for making coin any kind Of
II
sefevden that things cannot be made without material to
make them Of And the machinery which makes them
prepared furnish such material In all material things there
eliminating with the fundamental
creation by Deity And this last would appear be creation
of elementary substances which by combination differ
proportions make all the others
The eminent French scientist Papon who first demonstrated
that odor copuscuar (Which previously like light and
sound had been considered undulaory) says:
"Wha now, the odorous principles
plants? The chemistry of to-day reduces almost all Of them to three
caegores hdrocaburets adehydes,
ethe We will ndeavor give a clear the contu
OF these three kinds of substances and to mark their place in the
register of science The hyrocburets are simple combinations OF
carbon and hydrogen for instance the peoeumos They rep
the simple compounds of organic chemistry As adehydes
ehe their composition rather complex besides carbon
and hydrogen they contain oxygen
Independently the acohos which great number and
varying compexy organic chemistry recognizes another class OF bodies
or AQUA foi Now eerv alcohol on losing certain amount Of
hydrogen gives body which called adehyd
alcohol combining with acid produces what called
ether These rapid details allow understand precisely the chemc
character of the essential oils which plants elaborate
within their delicate tissues Except small number them
which sulphur the of the family of cucifer they
all the qualitative compotoncarbon and hydrogen
with without oxygen Between and another of them merely
the proportion OF these three composing elements varies by regular
gradaon but always to correspond either ydocarbe
or to adehyde to ether In this as in almost the
whole of organic chemistry thing is in the quantity of the
posing elements The quality of little importance to Nature that
materials by merely changing the ponderabe relations of the
latter produce by myad of combinations myiads of sub
stances which have no resemblance to each other.
"Suh the chemical nature of most of the oorous principles of
vegetable But chemistry has stopped short with ascertain
ing the nmost composition of these substances has succeeded
reproducing quite number them artihciay compounds
thus manufactured wholly from elements laboratories absolutely
Identical with the products extracted from pants'
Sounds, like odos made from combinations of matter
produced by shock and shaped the particular bodies in
which made For experiments show that all the different
bodies codng throw off sounds each body its sound
The dafram will make very plain sound when struck
which might possibly repeat by socaled unison vibration,
which that sound made by body under favorable
circumstances, will similar body and vbrate
it did the body which was made In this the body
thus vibrating unison does make sound but because
OF its vibration may throw off the sound that has
and which was made by similar body to itself.
The contention that the diam, anything else make