Nature's Miracles Volume 2: Energy and Vibration
by Elisha GRAY (1835 - 1901)Energy - Chapter II. Energy of Motion and of Position
Elisha Gray was an American electrical engineer who co-founded the Western Electric Manufacturing Company. Gray is best known for his development of a telephone prototype in 1876 in Highland Park, Illinois and is considered by some writers to be the true inventor of the variable resistance telephone, despite losing out to Alexander Graham Bell for the telephone patent.Nature's Miracles: Familiar Talks on Science, published in 1900, is a discussion of science and technology for the general public. Volume II is subtitled Energy and Vibration: Energy, Sound, Heat, Light, Explosives. (Summary from Wikipedia)
Listen next episodes of Nature's Miracles Volume 2: Energy and Vibration:
Energy - Chapter III. The Forces of Nature , Energy - Chapter IV. Transmutation of Energy , Energy - Chapter V. Energy in Relation to Life , Explosives - Chapter XXIX. Powder and Nitroglycerin , Explosives - Chapter XXVIII. Gunpowder , Explosives - Chapter XXX. High Explosives , Explosives - Chapter XXXI. Firing a Shot , Light - Chapter XIX. Sun's Rays , Light - Chapter XX. The Science of Light , Light - Chapter XXI. Light and Ether , Light - Chapter XXII. Color , Light - Chapter XXIII. Transparency , Light - Chapter XXIV. Mirage , Light - Chapter XXV. Phosphorescence , Light - Chapter XXVI. The Eye , Light - Chapter XXVII. Shadows , Vibration - Chapter IX. Noise and Music , Vibration - Chapter VI. Sound , Vibration - Chapter VII. Echo and Resonance , Vibration - Chapter VIII. Sound-sympathy , Vibration - Chapter X. Music and Musicians , Vibration - Chapter XI. Sound-interference , Vibration - Chapter XII. Sound-language , Vibration - Chapter XIII. Heat and Matter , Vibration - Chapter XIV. Expansion , Vibration - Chapter XV. Terrestrial Heat , Vibration - Chapter XVI. Generation of Heat , Vibration - Chapter XVII. Diffusion of Heat , Vibration - Chapter XVIII. Radiation of Heat