 | John Tyndall - 1867 - 364 pages
...impulses is shared by air, which concedes the right of space and motion to any number of sonorous waves. The same air is competent to accept and transmit the vibrations of a thousand instruments at the same time. When we try to visualise the motion of that air —to present to the eye of the mind... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1867 - 372 pages
...impulses is shared by air, which concedes the right of space and motion to any number of sonorous waves. The same air is competent to accept and transmit the vibrations of a thousand instruments at the same time. When we try to visualise the motion of that air — to present to the eye of the mind... | |
 | Alexander Wilford Hall - 1878 - 300 pages
...same time" only by hearing them, it utterly explodes this idea of the "interference" of air-waves, and with it the existence of such waves as the means...transmit the vibrations of a thousand instruments at the same time. When we try to visualize the motions of that air — to present to the eye of the mind... | |
 | John Piersol McCaskey - 1881 - 188 pages
...commotion by the music from an orchestra is far beyond the conception of the most vivid imagination. " The same air is competent to accept and transmit the vibrations of a thousand instruments at the same time. When we try to visualize the motion of the air, to present to the eye of the mind the... | |
 | 1891 - 208 pages
...tympanic membrane, to see at one glance the absolute breakdown of the wave theory. Professor Tyndall says: "The same air is competent to accept and transmit the vibrations of a thousand instruments at the same time. When we try to visualise the motion of that air — to prfsent to the eye of the mind... | |
 | 1890 - 586 pages
...the crowd of other emotions that agitate the water ; so the air we breathe and through which we move is competent to accept and transmit the vibrations of a thousand instruments at the same time, but when we try to analyze the emotions of the air, to present to the eye of the mind... | |
 | Joseph Battell - 1909 - 352 pages
...impulses is shared by air, which concedes the right of space and motion to any number of sonorous waves. The same air is competent to accept and transmit the vibrations of a thousand instruments at the same time. When we try to visualize the motion of the air — to present to the eye of the mind... | |
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The same air is competent to accept and transmit the vibrations of a thousand instruments at the same time. When we try to visualise the motion of that air — to present to the eye of the mind the battling of the pulses direct and reverberated — the... 