Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-07-29
1.-THE NEW PHYSICS"
SOUND
BY JOSEPH BATTELL

BY JOSEPH BATTELL


composed of nfnicsmal particles of electrical matter
which produced by shock friction in the bodies struck
Sound includes the principle of notion which the
bodies in which it is made to vbrate by which vibration the
sound less thrown the air. and finds its way
through the of beings the auditory thus
producing the Sensation Sound See The NEW PHYSICS
PIP. I77-ISo).
That sound makes body vbrate in which it exists, is
demonstrated by the principle of unison vibration where sound
conducted from vibrating body to similar body not viba
ing will make vibrae follows that have
made the first precisely similar body vibate when in it.
And know that did that that the body vibrated and
always vbated when the sound it, and always
vbrate when the sound leaves it. 1t would be impossible
have stronger proof that sound makes certain bodies those
that it in vbrate whilst remaining in them. That is
that sound always moving which true not only whilst in
the body in which made but through its whole existence
That the sound is completed whilst the body receiving
the shock may be proven by conducting through any
spruce stick the teeth bones of the head
and thence the auditory when will be preceived
that precisely the kind of sound that thrown ofby
the sounding body into the air. and thus conducted through the
the auditory In the first the sound that
heard does the air ALL but directly through
other channels from the vibrating body.
1t follows again that sound is fluid which may flow through
many channels and therefore entirely independent any
paticular conductor
There could be sound there proper material
make Of This of everything Always this sound is
made by shock and always composed of nhntesma
tces of electrical matter That it is composed is proven;
because be conducted through the air elsewhere but
felt because spreads the air every direction
and may be heard for long distances because when sound
made in vibrating plates covered with will be
from the plates into the air through the upon
which is plainly visible (See The New PHYSICS, pp
234-249).
That sound electrical proven by the great electrician
hundred years ago by German physicist
Ritter
The sounding body vibration by the electrical
material produced by shock thus acting machinery for mix
ing shaping the different sounds each body thus
ing the character of the emanang always
making the a similar sound. And the different
machines of sawm decide the kind of lumber which it
produces do the different bodies of the world acting
machinery, decide the character o sound.
In neither in any does the material of the
machinery which shapes makes things part the
things made and in does the machinery make the
material from which the goods manufactures made In
the of Sound have said the material nintemal
particles of electrical made by shock And bodies
millions of them, act machinery manufacture from this
material the different sounds.
For all sounds, like everything material universe
the product of different forms of mixed different
proportions, each made instantly and completely, always
the sound by the body.
Sounds made in gases weak Or if takes
place in there will be sound evidently because
material make is wanting. And indeed the intensity of
sounds depends upon the density of the where they are
made which is demonstration that they in part not
entirely, made from material in (See THE New PHYSICS
pp 66-7I nclusive).
Again sound intense when made in water than in
air. and water contains oxygen and hydrogen
air. it least highly probable that sound composed largely
of or both of these ingredients Thus odors which
another and kindred sensation known composed of
carbon and hydrogen with without oxygen (See THE
NEW PHYSICS, p 49, There question in regard any
of these facts.
That the shape body decides the character of the sound
made in it, proved by the disc record made from the
nary graphophone record BY pressure. (See THE NEW
PHYSICS PIP 23I233 and ELLEN Vol H. p. 646). In these
graphophone experiments Sound under certain
will certain substances parane wax minute
ndentures, which, when subjected shock will throw
similar sounds those by whose they made
This is indeed most ingenious arrangement which enables