THE CHARLOTTE NEWS, CHARLOTTE, N. C, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 9, 1921.
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MUSICAL EARTH
LECTURE TOPIC
Noted Scientist, Dr. John
Tyndall, Gives Vivid Ad
dress to Small Crowd.
The "music of the spheres" which
the ancient philosphers and poets sang
about and the "morning1 stars singing
together " as referred to in the Book
Df Job, are not poetic fancies but facts
Df the physical universe, according to
Dr. John Tyndall, noted scientist! of
Mount Vernon. X. Y., and for many
years a noted Presbyterian minister,
who delivered his famous lecture, "The
Wonders of Kther AVaves", Thursday
night before a small audience at Haw
thorne Lane Methodist church.
The lecture, intended to give the
amateur scientist end I ho inquiring lay
mind, a comprehensive grasp of some
of the wonders which science has re
vealed in th- last lew years in the way
of discovering th? secrets of ether, last
ed from 8 to 10:''0 o'clock and held the
rapt attention of an audience, most of
vhos' members had only a mild and
(.usual intorrst before in things scien
tific.
Dr. Tyndall, who is
Williams College was
science at ' 3 year.-; of
uraduate of Columbia
one .'f the recognized
;he sub.i-.'ct of jther waves, wireless
telegraphy, telephony and allied sub
iects. is related to Tyndall. the famous
British scientist and a member of the
-a me family as Tyndall, translator of
he Scriptures. For many years he was
. ngaced in the ministry but has always
been ;i scientist. Latterly, he has given
up tho active ministry to delve farther
into the mysteries of science. The un
devout scientist in any field as well as
the nndevout astronomer is mad, aac
ording to Dr. Tyndall's opinion.
I ltimately seience and the Bible must
a graduate of
a teacher of
age, is a post
I'nivcrsity and
authorities on
agree, according to Dr. Tyndall, who
did not dwell upon this theme during
his lecture, but afterward elucidated it
to a group of persona Interested in the
subject.
Dr. Tyndall had with him charts,
wireless receivers and transmitters and
other paraphernalia with which to de
monstrate the assertions about ether
waves and other scientific facts. He
began by reviewing the accepted facts
about etlier wav'es pervading all space
and of their power to penetrate any
thing in the physical world, even the
world-sphere itself and the human
1 ody. Ho showed by charts with intelligi
ble indications thereon that vibrations
of sound waves constitute musical
sounds, ranging from about 16 vibra
tions per second for the lowest note
up to such a number of billions and
tentrillions per second that they are
Quite beyond the power of the human
ear to detect. He also indicated how,
in the higher vibrations-per-second,
colors are formed for the observation
of the eye as low vibrations-per-second
constitute musical sounds for th.-? car.
t Tvn drill proved by chart and oth
er evidence that everything has a key
note and showed with a miniature wire
less outfit which he erected on the
stage that the ether wave vibrations
which travel 1S6.000 miles 'a. second, go
through wcrd. or iron or other physical
s-ubstanc:--. inclucung the lu.maii body,
as readily as th-.y go through. air and
that their traveling from point to point
on the earth or tl. tough the earth is in
stantaneous so far as distances on the
earth arc concerned, the earth being
onlv approximately 8.000 miles in di
ameter instead of the 186,000 miles that
the waves travel per second.
With everyday incidents of routine
l;fe, Dr. Tyndall proved that ether
waves are all-pervasive and that won
ders can be accomplished when their
laws are understood. For. example, he
cited the fact, referred to by Dr.
Floyd in a recent magazine story
about the late Enrico Caruso that vi
brations from the tenor's voice had
once r twice shattered into smith
ereens dishes, glass, crockery or other
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kinds, that came within vibratory focus
with , his voice.
RELATES EXPERIENCE.
"Mv own daughter, Dorothy, got a
surprise of this kind one day," related
Dr. Tyndall, "when she was in the din
ing room. We noticed that when she
spoke in a certain high key one of
the glass dishes on a shelf gave forth
a musical sound. I asked her to step
farther away and make the same
sound. She failed to speak in the same
key that time, however, and there was
no resnonse from the dish. I urged her
to think for a moment and see if she
could recall the key she had spoken
in first. She tried again and succeed
ed, the dish giving out the musical
sound in tune with her voice. This
was the . same principle on which the
dish broke at the vibration of Caruso's
voice.
"One day the Mauretania. the big
ocean liner, while in mid-ocean, suffer
ed a breaking of one of its blades. The
assistant engineer was standing by and
heard the blade snap: The chief en
gineer also heard it and called to tne
assistant to change the speed of one
of the ship's engines as they were
pulsing in unison and the resultant vi
bration might cause other blades to
break. A scientist a few months ago
was writing about an incident that
happened in a Fall River cotton mill.
When the engines driving the machin
ery were pulsing in key they would
cause such a vibration of the building
that a bucket of water on the floor j
would sway to such an extent that j
nearly all the water was spilled out. J
When the engines were changed so
that their rate of speed and. therefore,
tlioii. viVivntinna irprp not in linisntl
the bucket swayed so inue no water , 5j
was -spineo. out, aitnougn it was nneu
to the brim."
ILLUSTRATES POINT.
Illustrating these principals. Dr.
Tyndall took a key of C tuning fork
having 261 vibrations per second and !
while it was vibrating hold it over an
uprigni. glass '.uoe 01 i ne same imlcu. j
The tones of the vibrating tork were
taken up by the glass tube and so am
plified they could he heard to all parts
of the hall. The speaker then filled
the glass tube half full of water. This
threw it out of key with the C fork by
lessening the column of air, and the
tube failed to amplify . the sound at
all.
The entire universe, or cosmos, is
musical. Dr. Tyndall said, and the hu
man body, being a part of the phy
sical universe, is musical also. Xot
only radium but nearly all physical
substances give off heat and light to
a degree, though in radium the radio
activity is infinitely more intense than
in ordinary substances. To prove the
point Dr. Tyndall held up a glass tube
with a glass bulb on each end contain
ing water tinctured with red. 'coloring
matter. Even the small heat in each
of his hands, in a hall far from being
over-heated, drove the liquid at once
from the bulb under his hand to the
bulb in the opposite end. The quick
change was explained by the speaker
as due to the fact that the heat from
the hand instantly caused the bit of
air in the butts to expand, driving the
liquid to the other end of the tube.)
He elucidated the subject by showing i
how the telephone bell rings and how
a wireless or other telegraph instru
ment leceives the wave-impressions
from across space by the upsetting in
the receiver of the careful balance or
equilibrium which Nature maintains
everywhere.
Dr. Tyndall left Friday morning for
Spartanburg, S. C, where he will lec
ture Friday night. He is makings the
trip on his Southern lectures by auto
mobile. He came to Charlotte to annpar
at Hawthorne Lane church as a benefit I r&q
ior tne isoy bcout organization of that
church. Mrs. Tyndall is also an accom
plished scientist and shares her hus
band's enthusiasm for the subject.
The human race. Dr. Tyndall thinks,
has only touched the outer edges of
the possibilities of scientific knowl
edge and accomplishment. He believes
Newton had the right viewpoint when ; IS
ne said or himself, after a life spent !
in scientific research, that he was only j
as a child which had picked up a few i
pebbles off the beach of knowledge. j
Dr. Tyndall sees no reason why
many of the planets may not be in- I
habited. He thinks it unreasonable an
all-Wise and all-Powerful intelligence
should place on the tiny atom called
the Earth the only sentiment beings ;
of the same kind in the isles and con
tinents and oceans of space and leave ;
the rest of them untenanted. !
COLLEGES WILL
SEND AUDIENCE
Walter Hampden Expected
to Be Greeted by Great
Crowd of Collegians.
..Delegations representing practically
every college within reasonable train
radius of Charlotte will come here for
Walter Hampden's performance of
Hamlet o nthe night of December 13th,
the first reservation having been .set
aside yesterday for Winthrop College.
Meanwhile, of unusual interest is the
announcement made two days ago that
Mr. Hampden has accepted the vice
presidency of the famous School of the
Theater in New York. Elsie Ferguson.
George Arliss. Margaret Anglin, Rachel
Crothers, Arthur Hopkins, the produce :
Frank Craven, the actor-playwright,
and Robert E. Jones, the painter will
serve with him as an advisory board.
Mr. Hampden will teach at the school
during his periods of residence in New
York.
Mr. Hampden, himself a Harvard man
who leaped into fame almost overnight,
has always been a figure of Intense in
terest to the college men and women of
this country. Believing that America
was on the verge of a great revival of
POTATO, POULTRY AND
CORN SHOW NOW OPEN
Asheville Dec. 9. Buncoirfce coun
ty's garage has been transformed Into
ala place wnere nuum
jin, m off. the nnzo
the Shakespearean cult. Mr. Hampden,
then leading man in a current Broad
way success risked his all in an inde
pendent matinee porformance of Ham
let at the Plymouth Theater. The yet.
eran Towse happened to be in the first
audience and immediately announced
that the greatest living Hamlet was on
the boards at the Plymouth.
The effect was electric. Critics
flocked to the theater and. after a few
weeks of matinees, the 39th Street
Theater had to be taken over for the ex-: ghow wag officialy launched Thursday
ciusive use oi tne 8uuuc:n-i. I afternoon
ius of poetic drama. Since then Mr., f th finest seed corn in
Hampden holds a record run on Broad-. " ,h 'Carollna is bidding for
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Mr. Hampden has been brought to the j inigapSf of statesville, farm agent for
the Piedmont section, ana jui
assistant director oi extension
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exhibits of corn, potatoes and Poultry
entered by members of agricultural
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the American Association of University
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Lake of Bolsena. about 60 miles north
west of this city. The ground in sev
eral villages of that vicinity shows
large fissures and most of the inhabi
tants are camping in the fields. No
deaths have been reported.
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