Sound (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Sound The following article, which is a complete demonstration of the corpuscular theory of Sound that no one will ever be able to answer or overthrow, was sent to the Scientific American at New York, in answer to a correspondent, whose question, wrongly explained by the editor, appears at the beginning of the article. We enclosed stamped envelope with request that our article be returned at once if not used. After a number of days it was returned with the following note: "Your letter of March 17 has been received. It seems to us that your theory as outlined is quite untenable. Munn & Co., Sec." We have been too busy ourselves to refer to this until now, but take this opportunity to call the attention of the Secretary, to our offer that has been standing since 1901, repeatedly inserted in the leading journals, scientific and otherwise, of the world, - and also made permanent by insertion in The New Physics, - of $2000, to the first person who can prove the undulatory theories to be true, and the scientific explanation of the action of Sound in a telephone to be true, - which explanation the Scientific American here gives to its correspondent. In addition, we will give the Secretary of the Scientific American, who writes us, $500 cash if he can prove that our explanation is not true. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.