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...names Volt, Ampere, Ohm, Faraday, Henry, Gauss, Coulomb, Joule are household gods, and they remind us that we have the same interest and worship at the altar of the same patron saints--Kelven, Helmholtz, Maxwell. Heitz, Sumens, Cramme, Paccenotte. We have the same household gods and the same patron saints. We are all one. So each one of these meetings looks more and more like a family gathering. I wish that the American Congress were here and the American Senate to watch our proceedings and learn that the scientist and the engineer have discovered the great secret--greater than anything...
Interval is a characteristic quality which distinguishes the sound of all pairs of tones, the ratio of whose vibration numbers is the same. This quality is in most cases disagreeable, the few agreeable or consonant intervals having vibration ratios which can be expressed by the first five integers. Helmholtz has sought to explain this remarkable fact by the use of the same principle of the disagreeableness of the strong and rapid pulsations of sound formed by very near tones, which in his theory of Timbre accounts for the aesthetic superiority of notes with a few integral overtones to all others...
...given by Mr. Benjamin Ives Gilman in Sever Hall during January, February and March. The purpose of this course is to Inquire into the operations of the mind concerned in the hearing of music. An examination of the sensation of tone will be followed by an outline of Helmholtz's theory of the quality of musical notes and of recent opinion as to the nature of consonance and dissonance. The main structural characteristics of music will then be discussed psychologically, and a reference made in conclusion to the emotional and ideal elements which enter into musical effect...
...good for young priests. They lived, as they still live, in college, under the superintendence of a number of older graduate members (fellows) of the college; in other respects in the style and habits of the well-to-do classes in England.-[From the German of Prof. Helmholtz...
...misuse of tobacco and of intoxicating drinks. It must also be admitted that the English universities accustom their students to energetic and accurate work, and keep them up to the habits of educated society. The moral effect of the more rigorous control is said to be rather illusory.-[Prof. Helmholtz...