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

wrongly explained by the editor appears the beginning
the article.
enclosed stamped envelope with request that
be returned at not used After number of days it
was returned with the following note
"Your letter March has been received 1t
your theory as outlined is quite wtenabe
MUM & Co.. Sec"
We have been busy ourselves refer this until now
but take this opportunity to call the attention of the Secretary
to offer that has been standing since repeatedly
inserted the leading journals scientific and otherwise of the
word,-and also made permanent by insertion in The NeaV
Pysco $4,000 to the first person who prove the
duaory theories to be true and the scientific explanation of
the action of sound in telephone be rue,-which the
Scientific american here gives to its correspondent
In addition, will give the Secretary Editor of the
Scientific american who writes $500 cash he prove
that explanation is not
Here is opportunity enough money buy good
house, small farm; and it was possible thing prove
either contention there would be thousands attempting
it. Or the unduatoy theories the scientists having
been studying and teaching them for years. should be able
demonstrate them in a few minutes.
OF there will be response this offer but the
farce will go than farce the cme-of continuing
teach number Of youth assumed principles
which only absolutely false but in the things
impossible
Editor of Scientific american.
DEAR SIR
Under Notes and Queries in the Scientific Aeean of Jam
15 request by E. r. S. (I2I73) for you decide how
sound transmitted by telephone Your reply gives the usual
explanation. But is it true?
In a work entitled " THE NEW PHYSICS" which have
recently published have demonstrated that Sound
puscua composed OF nfnesma particles of electrical
made by shock instantaneousy in the colding bodies
which conducted by the air otherwise the OF
sentient beings, producing the sensation of sound
Perhaps the fundamental bunder in the old theory in
upposng that vibration made sound the truth being that al
ways is the sound that makes vibration when there any,
in a tuning fork after it is struck
Sound itself never vibates. 1t makes straight
running horse unless mpedcd with speed in air as is we'll
known, of about feet second The vibration of the
prong of tunngor takes place because the sound
the fork by shock mpeded in its Aow unable readily get
Of the fork and therefore, the echoes
constantly thrown reflected from side side thus produ
ing the vibration
Sound fluid be proven in five minutes by anyone
by placing the of vibrating uningfork upon
Cor any oher conductor Immediately the will
fork into the conductor, and be by it, sufficient
quantity rods at speed varying with the quality of the
conductor In conductors of certain kinds Of will 90
times faster than in and therefore if the the
vibrating fork placed upon end of such conductor and
the other end held in the teeth of person, placed
with the bones OF the head body person will
hear this sound fourteen times quicker than was con-
Quoted through the air This demonstrates that the
made simultaneously and complete the bodies struck
this sound thus delivered has entered the air. although
precisely the same that which goes from the fork
through the to the each the
The action Of sound in telephone wire very simple the
sound enters the tranmer and passes into quantity of
grains of carbon, which, enclosed in small box form
part the circuit and thence the into the broken
variable electric current made passing through the
bon when instantly carried by saw-logs are by river
and this with the speed the whether or
electricity At the receiving instrument proper arrangements
provided for the sound leave the These consist
of insulated copper wire which forms connection with the
main wire and the receiving instrument The sound is thus
delivered to the receiver where by the aid of magnet
heXes wound with very fine insulated WIRE energies into
small space very close to thin circular iron daam which
collects and reflects it to the very similarly a stove
reflects heat And this is the function of the diafram nor
can it make sound any than heat
The means used to bring sounds into the receiver similar
those for