Willamette farmer. (Salem, Or.) 1869-1887, April 07, 1876, Image 7

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Newspaper Page TextWILLAMETTE FARMER. ffl iOf w ' Recording and Photographing Sound. Prof. Vogel, in a letter to the Photographer, "Philadelphia, Pa., gays that Eooig, at Pari, las cor s traded an apparatus, consisting of a little dram, over which is stretched a very elaBtio skin. A stream of gas let throngh this drnm will bnrn as nsnal; but as soon as a tnne (by singing) strikes the skin stretched over the drnm, the gas light commences to shake in a wonderful manner; and if we look at it in a rotating mirror, we observe peculiar figures, which change according to the different notes; and by nsing a bnrning gas producing a light of great chemical effect, we can photograph these peculiar figures. What kind of gas will answer for this purpose is still an undecided question, but this muoh is certain, there are in this respect great problems yet to be solved; we may succeed, perhaps, in photographing speeches instead of stenographing them aB usual. In connection with the above it may be in teresting to read the following mode of Recording Musical Performances: A mechanic! of Bridgeport, Conn., has in Tented an electrical apparatus which record musical sounds bb they are played, which has been successfully applied to an organ at New Haven. The organ is connected with the re cording apparatus by a magic telegraph, and its operation is very simple indeed. Beneath each note of the three manuals and of the pedals, and connected with earh stop of the organ, is a small bra8 spring, which is pressed down whenever the piece to which it is attached is brought into action. From each spring wires Tun to a galvanic battery of 12 cells, and to the recording apparatus, which may be situated at any convenient distance from the organ. When the spring is pressed down, connection between the battery and recording apparatus is opened and the electric current passes through and is made to impress a paper very much in the same manner as the ordinary telegmphic ma chine. We may also call attention to an apparatus for transmitting musical tones by telegraph, concerning which an item has been traveling the rounds of the papers, and which depends upon the well known principle that the differ ence in musical tones consists in the difference in tie number of vibrations in the air in a given time. The invention consists in trans mitting a series of impulses of indncd elec tricity of high tension, corresponding in num ber to the number of audible vibrations consti tuting a given musical tone, through living tissue in contact with any resonant substance, or through a coll surrounding a bar of iron or the core of an electro-magnet, the succession of currents being produord by an induction coil or other apparatus for inducing a second iry current, and being caused by the action of any Buitab e circuit interrupter situated in a primary circuit. . We agree with a cotemporary that it would appear troni the above and numerous similar recorded instances that there is a growing ten dency to complicate machinery by the intro duction of electric: contrivances, whtch in many cases are utterly uncalled for and unnecessary. Motive Power from a Permanent Mag net!? Mr. W. W. Gray, of Huntingdon, Penn., claims to have discovered a mode of ntilizing 1be permanent magnet as a motive poser. He claims to do this by the use of a cut off or in terpose, which neutralizes or cuts off the mag netic attraction and which is made to rapidly interpose and withdraw from between the snaguet and the object attracted, which "ob ject" would correspond in its effects to the piston of an engine. It has for many years been a htudy with Mr. Gray to discover or de vise some element or compound which would defy, and by interposition, cut off the atti ac tion of the magnet; all else uould be simple. This discovery he claims to have made, and the same is verified by the editor of the Hunting don Journal as follows: "We have tested it the cut-ofl in every way that could be sug gested. We have taken a small piece of steel, placed it on glass, and then placed a magnet weighing perhaps a pound within attraciing, distance, and instantly the steel would fly to the magnet. We have placed the cut-off over the poles of the magnet, and placed it within the thickness of a hair of the steel, audit-would not manifest the least attraction or motiou. A needle suspended by a thread would fly to the magnet at considerable distance, but the mo ment the interpose or cut-off was applied the magnet could be placed within the thickness ot a thread without any visible attraction. We have seen a pump, worked by magnets alone, pump water by tbe hour. Any force required oan be suppled from an engine to run a del icate watch or sewing machine to a power suf ficient to propel the largest steamer." Accord ing to tbe above Mr. Gray accomplishes with a permanent magnet, which furnishes its own power at no cost except that of its original manufacture, just what has heretofore been done with the electro-magnet at tbe great cost of a battery to keep up its power. In Mr Gray's alleged (invention his ''cut-off" takes the place of the "battery." If he has accomplished what he claims to have done what becomes of .the new doctrine of "the correlation of forces?" Prof. Tyndall on "Germs." Prof. Tyndall recently delivered a lecture at -the annual opening of the Royal Institution at London, in which he pointed out some of the possible practical bearings of the now "Germ Theory," when viewed in relation to medica' science. The basis of the Professor's experi. ments is that, in tbe course of searching for means of obtaining air free from floating motes, he found that if air is allowed to ramain in a closed ait-tight vessel covered inside with glyc rine, in the course of three or four days it deposits all its motes, which adhere to the glyo nne, and it thus becomes quite free from them. The test of its perfect freedom is to pass a powerful beam of light through the case, when, if any motes are still floating, they make known their presence by reflecting the light. With air thus purified, Prof. Tyndall had made a long series of experiments bearing on the question of spontaneous generation and on disease germs. From these experiments Prof. Tyndall argues that sewer gas of itself is harm less; it is the germs floating in the sewer gas tha tow disease. If there are no disease germs present, the gas does n j harm. Another set of experiments on tbe horizontal nd vertical distribution of motes led to the conclusion that life germs float in little clouds, since an immen.e number of tnoes exposed in different parts and at different bights in the laboratory showed that some were affected many days before others. Clouds of disease germs may explain a puzzle to surgeons why a wound going on well for a while should sud denly, and without apparent reason, beoome putrid. It may be that it is being dressed just at a time when a "germ cloud" is passing. In his concluding remarks, Prof. TyndU referred to the fact that it has remained for modern science to discover that, more than by battle, or aciident, or famine, humanity Buffers from disease germs conveyed in air and water. Pacific Mail Steamship Co. New York to San Francisco, via Panama. HATES OF1 PASSAGE. & - H Eh o o o O Q ! tri H 3 & t&Thc Rates include the transit of the Isthmus of Panama via Panama Railroad. Also, Bed ding, Board and all necessaries for the voyage. An experienced Surgeon is on each ship, and no charge is made foj medicines or medical attendance. Steamers leave New York every Saturday at 12 o'clock, Noon, And Make the Trip to San Francisco in Three Weeks. This Route offers Special Inducements to EMIGRANTS, who will avoid, the delays, - discomfort and expense of the tedious trip overland by rail. THE STEAMERS OF THIS LINE CONNECT AT NEW YORK WITH ALL THE TRANS-ATLANTIC LINES FROM EUROPE Also at the Isthmus of Panama with Steamers of the Hamburg American Packet Company, from Hamburg and Havre, The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, from Southampton, The "West India and Pacific Steamship Company, from Liverpool, And the General Trans-Atlantic Company, from St. Nazaire. All information regarding Through Rates of Passage, can be obtained from the Agents of the above Lines at any port iu Europe, from whom Through Passage Tickets can be purchased. THE OFFICE OF THE PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY, IN NKAV YORK, IS ON TIIE WHARF, PIEK 42 NORTEC EIVER, FOOT OF OA.3STA.X. STREET. 'Xi ot w .w f ff w www mszmti R, J. Trumbull, Dealer in and Grower of SEEDS Smhr FLOWERS, JlvGte'nCS Shrub-. i'i lit. r-1,. '"' ' ii. n r gpEAW1 BULBS, . . "u i Kto., Vegetables, TREES, Far the OAnnnN, KAURI, nml MANSION, 4'J7 Sunsome SI reel, Run Francisco. efVcs rlptlvo Catal gues on application. Hoi, 327, 329 and 831 Btnaom Street, BA reiHcisoo. fA WM .rl flaV ,THE M.W IMl'IIONLD HOME SHUTTLE Sewing Mnchine. apiaE, - - $4.a.oo. WE ALSO SELL The Home Sewing Machine. These machine! use a shuttle, straight needle, and make tbe Lock Htitcti, They are surpaed by none. They art tkt smpltit and UghUiLntnning mo chtntl in W vwri. Bud tor drculan. Mme. Demorest Reliable Patterns. SEXD FOR A CATALOGUE. Royal Cliarta, 13.50. R. W. HAINES, Agent, IT New Montgomery Street (Grand Hotel Building), Ban rranciaco. Pelton's Six-Fold Horse Power. sW23!jBtiifc5;PATf FCBR. .1872 jErjfajdr Having made now arrangement! with Mr, McKenzio, lam prepared to eunpljr my powers to all persona favoring me wiih their order. All powere hcrtaftcr manufactured can only be obtained of me or my agents. In future they will bo made undir lny dlrtctious and Bpecincutlous, and nothing but a prime quality Machinery Iron will be Ubcd In their manufacture. I have greatly Improved the application and bracing my levers which will glvo thorn ampla strength. All potra fully warranted. For further Information, Bond for Circulars and l'rlco List to Address, Mv9 lam S. PELTON, Patentee. Salem, Oregon. PlmDli will send 12 Flowering Plants for Ono Dollar yourcho'cc from lOOsorHl.hj 31AII, OR I XT KISS. ."JW"- MV ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUF, ir"" H B lrriu.hcniitiirer.rl'lant A Senln, T-mStC. i i ruvtotRrn frrri nltirr, IHr A'liln., .Yll. h. llO'iVllITlll.UI.I ttarreu at., Iloktnn, Jta... ,20 FINE VERBENA8 FOR $1. Any of the following named plant if nt by mall, postage juld, at 1J cent rach Au tbrce irt for 25anU or iirtttrii tot SI So unlet rei.elvtlrur leu tbun . iffits fucfirliw (jeruiiluum (Double nale, Sienml uuU Ivyi Itf-rouUs, Carijutluiii Ulnlra ill. ,u,liD.,i lt.i.Ll.1 t'ljtila ActtfnllllMa aiuai, uiv(umiIM iiuian ttii( hiuiiii A bullion, Ailrjiitbv, UUus tuunai, Chrwu- ineii )uiu ji.ihiy 1'iiiux. l.i nuea. i-imAiariutni Hl(.Isii. 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