New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 18, 1922, Page 9

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Thirty-one billions of millions af molecules of nitrogen, eight billlons of millions of molecules of oxygen, four milllops of millions of molecules of argon, 16 millions of milliong of mole- cules of carbonic acid gas, 400,000 millions f molecules of neon, 40 thousands of milliens of helium and several thousands of millions of hy- drogen-ammonia, nitrogen oxides and water vapor combined, make one cubie millimeter, or about one-half the |size of an ordinary grain of rice, ac- cording to Hiram Percy Maxim, in-! ventor of the Maxim Silencer, and; President of the Maxim Silencer Co., who addressed the New lSr"llh\I branch of the American Society of | Mechanical Engineers at the New Britain club last evening, Mr. Maxim, admittedly the world's| greatest authority on questions of |noise and sound waves, spoke for more than fonr hours, in which time he lectured on ‘“Noise Reduction ! Problems," illustrated by a series of very remarkable photographs of sound waves, and spent at least half -that| period answering questions. Only when it was long after 11, o'eclock and the noted inventor began to show signs of weariness did the engineers consent to cease agking for! further information. Mr. Maxim described the cubic mil-| limeter, outlined above, as the medium | whereby the volume of sound is measured, He explained that wave lengths act upon the elasticity of the air and bound and rebound accord-| ing to conditions. Sound Reflections., The ear drum was described as a ldelicately tuned instrument much like a fine steel spring. Sometimes the I1ittle molecules of sound bound back and forth against the walls and sides of a room a dozen times before they! trike the delicate ear drum. | Although there it little diminution of energy in sound waves, because ol'] |this “reflection,” he explained hO\\'i the volee would sound differently if; the room were upholstered or padded with soft draperies. There would he little or no reflection and only a por- tion of the sound wave would strike the ear drum, Bad Acoustics, On the other hand he how, if thé room were filled with hardwood furnitures and glazed tile, there would he so much persistence in sound reflections that confusion would follow and people would say, “The acoustics wére bad.” How sound waves are reflected was| explained | | NELSON BARRETT SUPPLIES WINNING DIALOGUE OF WEEK someone orders the other half, I can't kill half."” Bradley Street Man Hasj Wittiest Answer to Pic-| NTOES BACK. Vienna Seeks Returns of Napoleonic Relics Loaned to France in 1914, Vienna, Nov. 18.-1In 1914 the mu nicipality of Vienna sent to the Bradley | Lyons fair a priceless exhibit of relics in our|of the Kranco-Austrian period of Na- to fit the | Poleon's time. They included many | mementoes of the French Iimperor berald this| "0 fireg |and of Mary Louise, and other ar- ture Puzzle—Other Win- ners, ] Nelson Barrett, of 35 gtreet, supplied what was, opinion, the best dialogtr picture published in the week® He will he given the 1 prize at the Harold office. Three dol ticles of great historic interest. lara sdés to Mrs Caroline G: IPackard |« ho War same, and the cpllection 8 GF. 64 Trintty street for the secondibest [ Sl n France. This week,the Mavor MigloRuG anti. twd dbliaed to R, Greco, |of, Vienna =peuitioned . fthe & French Bt Alling: street, Kenilhgton. for. the | Tunisier to restore it to the city. ltids i k! mderstood these articlss are now i Kingoe the hands of the French liquidator of alien enemy properties, missing conversation wa DEoR Patron, “Say, walter, the ed fly in my coffer, what ar ing to do about it?" Waiter, “I'm sure it isn't cur fault sir, we haven't time to teach them how to swim.” Mrs, Packard used the knife, very| prominent in the picture in her con- tribution which was: Patron, “What's| the idea of giving me such a dull kni " Waiter, “1 thought if T gave you a sharp one you might cut your mouth. ] R. Greco thought the two pictured might he sdying the following: I'a tron, “When am I going to get my ha!f of a turkey? Waiter, “When L ] THE HERALD The A-B-C Paper with the A-B-C Want Ads for ®he 5 follows: a drown- you go suggestion STILL DOING BU SS. Inn Visited by Napoleon and Other Notables Celebrates Annoversary. Augsburg, Bavaria, Nov. 18.--The n.ost famous inn in Germany, ‘The Three Moors” at Augsburg, has been celebrating an - annive ry of its founding 400 years ago. Napoleon 1. spent some Augsburg with his guest-hook of the inn tures of Josephine Beauharnais and Marie Lounise. Next to them were in- seribed the names of Metternich and ‘Talleyrand, and of various time Other noted and Si the Congress of Vienna. Buests included Wellington Waller Scott. * EAT EGYPTIAN EGGS, Alexandri; jeypt, Nov. 18.—-Dur- | ing the first six months of 1922 Hgypt scnt 110,000,000 epgs to England. . ' AUTOMOBILE REPAIRING By A. G. HAWKER We have employed a specialist on Valve in Head Motors. Nothing but work of highest order turned out. Special service on Nash and ¢ Qakland Cars. Oakland Parts in Stock. A. G. HAWKER 52-54 ELM ST. TEL. 2456 in' f, and the old eld the signa- ! princes and ambassadors en route to’ {{lustrated with a case of a glass mar- ‘hlfl’ and a stone slab, ‘The marble | hounces on the slab. 'The stone slab | gives slightly, so does the glass mar- ble, but the reflection is great enough {to send the marble almost all the way back to its starting point. By putting a mat over the stone the re- flection is diminished, most of it Roes | into the mat in the form of heat and | the marble hounces probably not | more than an ineh, making an fn- efficlent reflection; which the inventor says is what is needed in the reduc- | 'tion of useless noises today. ! Referring again to the reflection of | sound waves, he spoke of the reflec- | tion of light. “If there were no air on | {he earth, the sun would only cast ilfl:l(-k shadows,” he said, “and the only things visible would he, those in the direct sunlight. Reflection makes ‘\\'hile light. Sound is a white noise.” | Metba's Throat “Melba's throat mechanism WakeSO perfectly formed that every vocal cord vibrated in unixon and mgade a perfect sound,™ he said. gound waves whieh are audible travel at the rate of 1,100 vihrations a second when they hecome musical | notes. Sounds which vibrate at the vate of 40,000 to 60,000 per second pass out of audibility and can not be | heard. In other words it is possible to make a noise so loud it sounds like silence, he explained. 'This i& because | the sounds are experienced by a deli- | cate membrane of the eardrum ac- cording to its vibrations. Vibrations of 60,000 a second are so rapid the membrane cannot respond quickly cnough and therefore is held smflon—‘ ary Vhat Does The Microbe Hear? | Noises perfectly audible to the hu-| man ear sometimes cannot be heéard hy the elephant’s ear, he explained while the mouse can hear sounds in-| audible to the human ear and the tiny |insect in turn hears noises even the | mouse cannot hear. So finely graded |1s this distinction that woman can | hear slightly better than a man, he | tnformed his audience, hecanse her | car drums are mora delicately attuned. Noige, he explained, is wave mo- tions projecting themselves through" !the air at a velocity of 1,100 feet a second, The bringing of two bhodies tegother violently ereates a small zone | af compressed air, which by vibrating the live membrane in the ear drum| | ereates noise. “If a great treo Yalls in the forest | with a régounding crash, and there is no living thing preseat to hear it "thére is na noise,” he replied in an- swer to a question. “There can he 1o noise unless it is audible.” Would be a Good Thing Sometimes He explained how it might be pos gible in the near future for a scientist or an inventor to walk into a theater while a'show is on, attach a small cord to a light socket, turn a switch | in his pocmet and, even though the actors speak or the orchestra plays, throw the entire house in utter silence by increasing the frequency of sound vibrations to an inaudible extent. In time it will be poseible, the in- i ventor feels, to have a sniall instru- ment, similar in effect ta a phono- graph or a radio outfit, which ean he put on a table, and by attaching it to o light socket, throw the room into silence. He described what a wonder- rul boon this will be' to hospitals. “We get hundreds of letters every year,” he sald “from neurotics who suffer tortures from noises, asking us to give them some relief.” Y Vibrations can he so slow that the noise is not audibie, also. If ‘a man illustration, {too rapidly, and a swishing sound is | not escape through the barrel it will "The list of noise makers which Feverywhere! wera to put hig hand in front of him us though pressing the palm against something and then push outward, he would create sound, but it would net bhe audible because the vibrations would not be quiek enough to catch the vibrations of the ear, Sounds 'We Never Hear There ave sounds in the air about us all the time we never hear, he ex- plained. The whip lash used as an The whip is moved, not heard. Tt is snapped rapidly and it gels a veloelty in excess of the velocity of sound, thus causing a compression on the alr, which by vibrations on the ear drum becomes audible, and which constitutes the sharp erack, | In silencing a noise, he said the | problem was to distribute It over a | great period of time. This s the! princigle of the Maxim silencér, Sound goes a mile in five seconds, Pictures of sound are taken hy the 1ght of electric sparks in an clectric condenser, traveling at about one mil- | lfon sparks a second, | Photographs of Sound The speaker showed a number of | interesting photographs of sound| waves, explaining how they travel on | flat and round aurfaces, smooth and| hroken surfaces. He explained how, while light throws a shadow. sound| waves comé together after pagsing an obstruction, a'though Alightly weal@r!| in the spot bazk of the obstructien, | He explained how sound waves are | broken up and slowed up while going| through a muffler and also showed an| intereating picture of the sound of ex-) ploding Fourth of July bomb. | A series of photographs of sound waves and interferences after the fir-| ing of guns and small fire arms as| shown as well as photographs shown | of 12 ineh guns with the maxim sil-| encer eliminating the explosion sound. | Contrary. to the popular feeling, it| is impossible to use a Maxim silencer on an ordinary revolver, he said, be- cause there is ap opening between the barrel and eylinder for the gas to es- cape, and if the exploding gas does come out between the two pieces. Going through the Maxim siléncer, the gas containing the sound waves goes {hrough a vortex of whirling motion, and is thrown Wy centrifugal force! against the sides of the baller. The Maxim silencer so guides this gas through flanges and small holes that it breaks the sound waves into 64 small parts, practically eliminating them. The little whirlpool of water run- ning out of a bathtub, furnished the inspiration to the inventor after two years of hard study flguring his prob- lem, he says. The need of a general silencer, ac- cording to Mr. Maxim, is almost as great today as the need of a telephone. Camera Tells How 1t's Done Following his address he was asked aquestion after question on sound waves and silencer, He showed pie- tures of sliencers taking the noise out of exhausts in gas and oil engines,| air compressors, safety valves, ete. He explained the theory whereby a per- son can, by striking a certain note of musle, 'shatter all the glassware in a room, or a violinist can, in the same maner, cause a bridge oit a building {o collapse, by striking a certain note. Certain kinds of notes can burst per- son's ear drums or render them tem- porarily deaf, he added. He explained how it 4s possible te send and receive four teiegraph and two radlo messages over a single wire at the same time. He told how two men playing flutes, or singing, in the same key and the same notes, migne make different sounds. How one kind of wood makes hetter violin music than another. How a dog lives in the world of odor and a bat lives in a world of gound. What Afls the Dog One question which elicited much amugemént was asked the expert on sounds. He was told of a town where there is a set of church bells which have a peculiar but not un- pleasant sound to the human ear, but every time they ring every dog in! the neighborhood squats down in his tracks and howla. | “The dogs hear a different sound than the human ear does,’” he said, “The hall does not sound the same to them as It does to you. It has a| doleful sound to thé dogs. It does| not give them physical pain but it| wrings thelr very being with anguish. 1f you could see the expression on their faces you would "see that they are almost heart broken. Wounld Silence Women Also. Women ind babies are included in the things needing silencing, aceord- ing to letters for help being réceived at the Maxim plant, the speaker sald, the Maxim company is asked to silance, aceording to the inventor includes the following: Steam safety valves, air safety valves, oll cloth curing ma- chinery, flour bag making machipéry, aspitin _ making machinery, Kodak fim making machinery, automatic air hoists, pants pressing machinery, milkmen in the early morning, wives, mothers-in-laws and babies. CONTINUE PICTURE GASE Charles Geldraitis to Receive Judg- ment Tuesday Morning ~— Plain Drunk Only Man on Docket. At the suggestion of Prosecuting Attorney Joseph G. Woods, the case of Charles Geidraitis, charged with making obscene pictures, was con- tinued to Tuesday morning. The | matter has already been tried out and briefs have been submitted by Lawyer C. J. Danaher of Meriden, for the accused, and Prosecutor Woods for the state. 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