Keely
"The keynote of Mr. Keely's researches is that the movements of elastic elements are rhythmical, and before he had reached his present stage in producing vibrations, on the principle of resonance, he has had problems to solve which needed the full measure of inspiration or apperception that he has received. Hertz has produced vibrations about one metre long, vibrating more than one hundred million times a second. Keely has produced, using an atmospheric medium alone, 519,655,633 vibrations per second; but, interposing pure hydrogen gas between soap films and using it as a medium of acceleration, he asserts that on the enharmonic third a rate of vibration may be induced which could not be set down in figures, and could only be represented in sound colours. He has invented instruments which demonstrate in many variations the colours of sound, registering the number of necessary vibrations to produce each variation. The transmissive sympathetic chord of B flat, third octave, when passing into inaudibility, would induce billions of billions of vibrations, represented by sound colour on a screen illuminated from a solar ray. But this experiment is one of infinite difficulty, from the almost utter impossibility of holding the hydrogen between the two films long enough to conduct the experiment. Keely made over 1,200 trials before succeeding once in inducing the intense blue field necessary, covering a space in time of six weeks, four hours at a time daily, and should he ever succeed in his present efforts to produce a film that will stand, he anticipates being able to register the range of motion in all metallic mediums. On this subject Keely writes: - "The highest range of vibration I ever induced was in the one experiment that I made in liberating ozone by molecular percussion, which induced luminosity, and registered a percussive molecular force of 110,000 lbs. per square inch, as registered on a lever constructed for the purpose. The vibrations induced by this experiment reached over 700,000,000 per second, unshipping the apparatus, thus making it insecure for a repetition of the experiments. The decarbonized steel compressors of said apparatus moved as if composed of putty. Volume of sphere, 15 cubic inches; weight of surrounding metal, 3I6 lbs". [Bloomfield-Moore,]
"He [Keely] has invented instruments which demonstrate in many variations the colours of sound, registering the number of necessary vibrations to produce each variation. The transmissive sympathetic chord of B flat, third octave, when passing into inaudibility, would induce billions of billions of vibrations, represented by sound colour on a screen illuminated from a solar ray." [Bloomfield-Moore] [3rd octave]
See Also
Law of Electric Conductivity
Law of Transmissive Vibraic Energy
13.38 - Theory of the Induction of Sympathetic Chords to Excite Rotation by Vibraphonic Trajection to and from Centers of Neutrality on Revolving Globe
14.13 - Full Harmonic Chord
19.02 - Theory of the Induction of Sympathetic Chords to Excite Rotation
8.21 - Signature same as Chord
8.24 - The Dance of Concord and Discord
8.26 - Law of Force
8.27 - Law of Sympathetic Oscillation
8.29 - Law of Vibrating Atomolic Substances
8.31 - Law of Transmissive Vibraic Energy
chord center
Chord of Mass
chord of sympathy
chord of the mass
Chord
chord-setting
coincident chord of sympathy
coincident sympathetic chord
Concordant Chord Settings
Concordant Chords of Sympathy
Factor-chord
Figure 1.1 - Chord Signatures of Brain Convolutions
Figure 18.03 - Keely Chart Showing Acoustic Resonance of the Brain Chord
Figure 8.7 - Varying Degrees of Chordal Harmony and Discord
Full Harmonic Chord
Laws of Music
Laws of Ratios
Sympathetic Chord Molecular
sympathetic chord of unity
Sympathetic Chord Positive
sympathetic chord
THEORY OF THE INDUCTION OF SYMPATHETIC CHORDS TO EXCITE ROTATION BY VIBROPHONIC TRAJECTION TO AND FROM CENTERS OF NEUTRALITY ON REVOLVING GLOBE
transmissive chord
transmissive sympathetic chord