More startling was a recant announc-nwnt from Oa*nbri'*ge Unlversiu m gtard This anrasuneerwetu which tollow ed the expertmemjt oi psychaaoglus work ins: In enn.tunctton with the "British Asso elation for the Advancement of Science aaid that a light flash can In some cases a»a hearing ,,, pf the opera '"Oonwn" zL ™ *•* Torw<,or ^ entered the tavern of ' Toe orchestra had dimmed ^^cfcgmund And n o w a _ T .pBcfwry seemed to flow ££, tf,,, hiphartt*»«y *> «•*« ^ P Toreador's famous song I r these experiments the scientists first determined the lowest possible sound which each person could heai Next they drowned out this sound with • louder one tone having a greater number of vibrations per second i Naturally the listener was unable to hoar the fainter sound But when a sudden bright light was fuvhed before him he again heard both sounds The flash of light the experimenters explained stimulated his brain to keener perceptions It affected the eyes first: then the ears This again showed a direct relationship between the human eye and the human ear MCI! .J^ePestra seats a man leanirownWB * « * the effort of m s gaze more sharply on the onp of the boxes a "woman , r e glasses Both the man and . . ^ preparmg » tse*n *> * * a ^CJY ushu- their eye* sim0, yjf unconscious yeatlaatlon j tmrtnf. w e United by a eem^f—vibration* «< vears ago the EBghsh philnd Hartlev said that all human . botn pleasure and pain - are Today acasne* not it many feelings have this > suggests ***** *^es ***y ** trog and ears for atght. [e£j by Vibrations ; mcredibic but too* «t the BOUMI pictun film "It's in the i uj Hollywood when a film te |(i tne-v mean that sight and ^ m a film container—both urnw rtrtp of semi-traaaparfcior. th; wiii pass through that film appeal on u screen Sound mirougf1 amplifiers and loud Lam sight and sound have been Ibr&uon; knother example modern teteL»nng A single wire w a y wurry j 8 photograph The voice uses Lev or rate oi vibration, the | uses another pedn't go to the opera or ax _i or study a telephone system f appreciate the connection h c and souna Just cleae youi (ten An auto horn blares Your . sounc bu; your brain piccf In other words, you see kir HI vou: mind. Hist horn /%TfCER experiments have indicated that *^ there is a minute electric current in the brain This supposedly links seeing and hearing organs and explains why the visual stimulation of the light flash was tram toted into more acute hearing But according to scientists the Known * basis for connecting sight and sound is still vibrations And the most graphic method of explaining vib attons is still the ripples which widen from a stone dropped into a ^ still pood Just as sight and sound vibrations trave. outward from their source until they meet some obstructions, so these ripples flow oui ward until they reach the bank In the case of sight vibrations the obstruction naturally is anything that is opaque In the case of sound anything that is sound proof However, there is a definite difference in these vibration- It is this difference which p> events the eye and the ear from being interchangeable without further scientific**penmen t The ear designed like a microphone, to registe: the lower vtbratlons of sound, misses entirely the higher vibrations of sight Today scientists simply know Mia sight aids hearing and hearing aids sight Their next lob is to connect the two The possibility of then doing this within » few years u »ar less fantastic than u sour.os In earhei days for instance one pal' of wires was necessary for each telegraph message or telephone conversation But further experiment shewed thai. Hire sight and hearing the Morse tassyreph massages traveled at one rate of speed (used one frequency or set of vibrations! and the human voice used another Next, these experiments showed that tetetvpe messages and even long distance conver sations used two other sets of vibrations Came the wirephoto. using an entirely new set of vibrations These picture* traveled at the speed of light The telephone messages traveled at the speed of souna No one of them conflicted with another ano today half a doxen different iiM—ayi are traveling over the same wire in each di-ec tton at the same tune—a doxen different sets of vibrations each doing a separate Job where only one traveled befor« That's in telephone engineering Bui thr human body is admittedly an engine "The color camera the microphon-* the radio all comparatively new. simply have made the engineering parallel more clear The human eye of course is more efficient than any color camera yet mnde And the human circulatory system is a marvel of hydraulic engineering Marvelous Machine | N PACT, from an engineers standpoint t h e whole system is a marvelous machine R Bucfcmaster Puller puts the idea mto wordB in his book "Nine Chains to the Moon "Man is a self-baiancm. 28-.gun ted adapter-base biped An electro-chemical reduction plant, with thousand of pneumatic and hydraulic pumps Stony two thousand miles oi capillaries; millions of warning signals (nerves conveyor systems (alimentary canal > crushers I teeth I and cranes (hands and arms' and a telephone system needing no service foi 70 years if well managed "The whole mechanism gulden with exquisite precision from a turret <headi in which are located telescopic and microscopic self-registering range finders (eyes' the turret control being ctoselv allied T- anvfflff Or Trre COnnwCTWQ rmn fie I w f f n trgnj t and tound. thit v o o w i troint for o p e r o fltePei in "Carmwn in ottlwr f o Mm tinq store ctworty. of the then a season at St Morit^ and other big winter nueorts, thrilllnR the ewperts whh her performances—and Hasel was ready to follow bet guiding star to this country Already she has « contract for §7*0 a week and can hardly wait to hear how she made out In Her scrwn test—because Sonja s in the movleH But if yon ask her how she likes America, she can't say yet. She has been too bu«v prae!k»ln«. getting phntogapheo and starring In Ice shows S h e hopped down to PJorJda for a special appearance and her Mttie hook Hats ljike Placid Boston Chicago. Toronto and nfchcr places where she In scheduled to put her curls and skates on exhibition S Il V*sjR sfttates cut a streak across the ice Sturdy tegs propel a lithe young bod.v in graceful glides and twirls Goldei curls, and bright blue eyes top off the flash uig figure matching the twinkle of her skates Ttes beeutitui pirouetting girl Is nisi U and Tier name is Basel Pranklin. and she is England's child wonder on the silver blades Everyone remarks that she look> ilk' Sonja Henic the Norwegian star, and Ha » l a d o r n being told about it Ever since she glided into the limelight the little fflri trorr Bournemouth has been pointing hei ~ " W - ->*•• tiny atee •>* skate* straight at Bonis s SIAI .hist mention Miss Hente> name * A Ho//ywood oef& 6of/i sound and stahf on o to her ' says Harold Nicholson a> timgh Htm wHh ihe apparatus shown hei manager *and she'l' which it recording a lunchroom practice like fury The otuer day. f«s» sin went with an atr-eoodiuoriea mtetce and m o n in hpust (nose and a main fuel intafc* < mouth) Within the few cubic inches M a d i s o n * housing the turret mecha nisms there is also S q u a r e (.sirdens let Show I coacheo pei u. taw room for two sound msvr and sound dtree tion-flnder recording diaphragm* (ears and her ef«s as arell a s her skaie,~ like Snuia >ht put on an optic daxxle that made iht crowd forget to breathe ' Today after three veat-- ol training Ha T H E S E parallels become clearer T | !>• better at free skat1n« than her dim ' striking with each new sdenUfic mven plfv* rival, m »he nptrinp nf Nicholsoi. ||»-h( rton and advance The action of the brair. trained them both He pirouette las: a s a eo-ordinatmc instrument mittht br In' pes anr! she makt- more twirls In the to the protection machine which •top scratch spin —40 of them to be exact the recorded sound and sight WPor four hours even rtav she keeris her bmlions from a single film separates them Mate! flashlne and her skirt sptaving 1h and projecu them to the ears and eve* ot difficult and delicate maneuvers lit < tth* moiir fans Another future step m s \ Jump Arabesque an<i thr Axe! Pmtlmf, make sight and hearing organ- inter Jump In ttie "double Salchow she comes changeable out of a tang spin on the right tor lumps Delicate machines already* are able to re hrch and make-, two full I (I till in midsii cord sound which is inaudible to the human -Stag on the tight toe again Onl- *-'ell* eat They can also amplify this faint cv Caspar men s world amateur champ and cle of vibrations so that it will shatter an Evelyn Chandler profession*. figure aluminum diaphragm in a microphone ap skater can match this feat of grace and narattis A stmiia' trick often entertained balance aceording to Haael'i trainer rtmner guests o Caruso The tamnu* tenoi 17ST as Soma gre*- up on BBTOJ I W wouSf- tap a goblet to determine tt> keVk fields H»7F prartira!lv grew ur notf Then he'd Pm% trus keynote win: «ueh rtnV She wa on skat^1- when Ntet <> «m tained strength as to shatter the gi» found her a prettv child of nine dm. tx» vtbratlons These are Just a few of*the deveiopmenis f-fdthlv graceful figurefi in perfec time He asked stiuaUon. sn< that mar indicate the truth of David Hari- with the musir learned that her mother ran the rink pro r Irp'v 200-vea -old statement He went so vtdtng her with ample practire whi < w* far as to attribute all pleasure and pain father a pianist well known in British r»to vibrations Todars scientists attll stiifv * Escamillo i voice is o the more fundamental •iinaalloii i of sight rtif. har. t«uoh her er.-oreitnation anc § rtaoSo «ftrf»fl Ta* war Theae tney afjree ampma on rhythm Yn f^n T» her Nlchotvwi s oi Hm woman in th* But tttere « a verv w » > «an few feasgajD the freqnencv of %*ibr^Mnn^ *hicl. offer to train he; w«* arwpted Ihat Hflbow it a rwcevver. Com bfwffio tight with tottno parh will receive and recorO lyrpe:iment* r< gave up plan* for s e a r e c as cot kmr reewpi'ton of the appear to be narrow ng that gap Tomor- [Ha11III to follow to S o m a s | truck* Two -f*T' of v>.rsI-i/.n rows scientist.*; opera it ttnppmd »p amy cloae it intiretv Skates On* thing is certain In net trainer* mine that Harel isn't after roonev "Bhe rto*»n"t know l u value.' he explains "When I toll he ho« much Sonja is get ting, she tells trie to go oui and get a« much for hei Then she takes her two-bit allowance <thsts all she getsi and *xtys me cignri With ft ** Proiifi *-- he is of his Httie prot-egec, Nirholson admit* thai «the ha« a gnrvi way to go before catching up with her glam "• -etiintr mii«cV« mn>t «1re«; deteto,, furl i, hefr." the\ can BSD ptr«,)i That mature *irafer» impose fW At present she weighs 77 tHem^cives twpec lUCsliBs short, of pounyi^ tofifi five fee? h a e i s I h * e • t. I! i i- C O N . I A WENTE, ai the *^»riy ace nt sewn. J hari won a junior •katmg championship j. vorwav At ton she won the Norwegian flgirn *katinc champlonahip and at the of eleven she was crowned the champtnn figure skater of the world (he youngest person to hold that title tn the MaWv of sport Ten con*fruine worlds championahipi followed Sonja bed one honor besteor. he, bv the KlPtt of Norway and aimn-; burtert unrttt M M I American doWars dni neve, sij,e*pf*j practicing Ww s »i ways tn training even in Hollywood. whe«t ahe pet* up before S A M ***** only trim Juices fe,r br*mkfa«it a wmUl cup of IB at lunch and Skates all day J franklin fnn'nrri •• wrindf \kotmr, ii oe'v rfVirfeer v»e»" o'er So Harel HI choosing • toi the Ultima Th.i -xttng wo. But Haw] »;, vmjt I ramer Wlohnl believe BMtc bllth.h arotuvi a*kw»r<l age and streak her way to star(lom lt*e Sonifi herself-curls bright Wue ail •AC.I Untitled Document Thomas M. Tryniski 309 South 4th Street Fulton New York 13069 www.fultonhistory.com WVfN I i