Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-11-21


give forth sounds similar to those which
made them.
GAS Ellen has suggested, these in
dentures answer the purposes of seeds.
That is, they are changed into musical
instruments, which will continue in
definitely when struck, to produce the
sounds hich made them"
"And what are the sounds that make
them?" / asked.
"Those made into the megaphone,
she answered, land always the sounds
which the Indentures make are SINH
lar to the original sounds. They
make no others. Sounds make sounds,
following the great principle of Like
producing Like. The seed of a
Pine produce another Pine. An thus
always, flowers produce similar flowers,
and indeed all plants; and so, too, all
animals similar animals; and all sounds
similar sounds. Ellen thinks that this
is very valuable law, but whether it
is or not, it's the law that exists, and
by which every material thing in this
vast universe is made"
"All of them?"
GAS Ellen thinks all them, included
in which are Sounds. Hasn't the old
Pine noticed that piano or trumpet,
or any other instrument, always makes
the same sound?"
| "He has," answered, land sees that
Ellen is right, and therefore knows that
plants will be produced by plants and
Sound by Sound. The theory that
Sound is composed of air waves is a
humbug, although Sounds unquestion-
ably exist in air, sand to that extent are
a part of it, and very important part. I"
"But what" l asked, 'is the con-
struction Of the diafram?"
THE diafram," she replied, sis
composed of glass, which covers the
face of the recorder, and assists in COL
lecting and guiding the sounds uttered
into megaphone, to the paraffin and
wax"
And does it not make these sounds?"
cit certainly does not Ellen made
some of them in singing into the mega
phone; others have made great many
more. AS Ellen has told the old Pine
repeatedly, all sounds are made by
shock. Ganot says by shock or friction,
but friction is shock.
''In this case the shock is produced by
the reproducer striking the indentures.
These indentures, thus formed, give nc
sound until they are struck by the re
producer, which is similar to the record
err, only the stylus of the reproducer is
rounded on the end that rests in the
indented groove. By the collision OF
these two s-reproducer and in
dentures- following the universal law
sounds are produced in quantities suf
fcient to fill the surrounding air; anc
these sounds thus produced are precise
y similar to those sung or uttered into
: the megaphone. And thus sounds are
. reproduced, and all sounds may be, anC
in such manner that the whole process.
, of their manufacture is disclosed
The sounds themselves are. a.
always, made by shock, or collision be
tween two or more bodies And thes,
sounds are made in such abundance a
: to be distributed instantly in ever,
:, direction -infnitesimal particles of cleo
u trical matter"
''But what decides the character O
these sounds?" l asked.
"The nature of the bodies whicl
make them," she answered. And il
this case the bodies are the Indenture
and the reproducer.
a "Ganot says of these Indentures =
The impressions in the groove appea
! at first sight as a series of successiv
points or dots, but when examined unde
a microscope they are seen to have
= distinct form of their own. When a cas-
, is taken by means of fusible metal an
- a longitudinal section made, the outlin
=. closely resembles the jagged edge of
~ Konig's flame"
-e 'And from this we learn that the In
IS dentures are shaped by the sound
Ill which made them; and when sound
IN produced by collision between them an
lie the reproducer, the sound thus forme
ir is fashioned in these distinct forms, S
a as to make a particular sound. An
to thus sounds are made in graphophont
THAT the cause of reproduction c
Sound in a graphophone is connecte
- with the record, may be tested by any
one. For the sound can be heard whe
a reproducer is passed over the recorC
~ although the stylus is entirely separate
y from the diafram. All that any diafral
- can do, is to assist in collecting, and, b
that means, increasing the effect
:. sounds, made by some und-producir
instrument.