The talkies (1930)

Record Details:

Title:
The talkies
Date:
1930
Publisher:
London: Crosby Lockwood and Son
Volume:
The talkies
Leaf #:
00057
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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THETALKIES 29 folk who have spent their lives asking about things which most people take for granted. In times gone by they used to get themselves into serious trouble; you will remember how poor Galileo nearly got himself burned at the stake for having the impudence to suggest that the world went round the sun instead of the other way about. The ecclesiastical "highbrows" of the time bullied him so much that they actually persuaded him to sign a document saying that he had been talking nonsense; but even that did not prevent the old gentleman being distinctly heard to mutter, as he pushed his way out of the hall, "For all that it does" It was Galileo, by the way, who noticed that the longer a pendulum was, the slower would be the period of its swing, which has a parallel in the organ pipes, the slow vibrating low notes being produced by huge pipes 64 feet long, the shrill high notes coming from pipes little larger than a lead pencil. It boils down to this, that the size of things which are producing sounds has a great deal to do with the pitch of the sound they make, and that things of certain size will always prefer to vibrate at certain notes rather than at others. That is one of the most difficult problems that the