Word: sounds
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...heartiest wishes for success go with the innovators, since we feel that from the very fact of the students themselves having assumed the responsibility of the scheme, the need of the improvement is sound...
...said that sound has three and only three elements or characteristics; namely, intensity, which is dependent on the amplitude of the vibration of the sounding body; pitch, depending on the rate of vibration, and timbre or quality due to the form of vibration. When these three elements are determined the sound is determined. Therefore we should be able to reproduce any given sound. This may be done by means of the electrical current, and when it is accomplished in this way we have the telephone...
...which will sustain him in his intellectual work. But the majority of men in middle life today were not brought up on athletics in their youth. They did not ride bicycles or enjoy the activity and spirit of the saddle, and they have never done much to keep a sound mind in a sound body. The almost total neglect of bodily exercise among the men of one's acquaintance is characteristic of our own generation, and it would be hard to estimate the number of men in the prime of life whose death is attributed by the verdict...
Although the Babylonian inscriptions from Persepolis were translations of the deciphered old Persian, yet the difficulty of the Babylonian script stood in the way of reading the Babyilouian characters. A given sign did not always represent the same sound nor the same idea. One could read the shorter Babylonian inscriptions without knowing how to pronounce a single sign. By degrees it was seen that the various signs were syllables and not letters. From this discovery the work went rapidly forward. In 1857 so much had been written on the subject that the Royal Asiatic Society of London appointed a committee...
Physics A. Lecture III. "Sound." Dr. Whiting. Jefferson Physical Laboratory, 12 m. These lectures are open to all members of the University...