A Request, or Two...

Ted Gallop ( gallope@planet.curtin.edu.au )
Fri, 29 Jan 1999 15:15:50

Hello Members,

I'm new to this group, and hope to be able to contribute constructively as
time goes by...
My particular interest, at the moment, is sound/accoustics/harmonics, etc.

Can anyone help me with the following two requests.

I've read all of the keelyNet files on Ed Leedskalnin. However I was under
the impression he had written quite a bit about his "sweet 16". Are there
any copies of this writing extant? If so, where can I get my hands (eyes?)
on it.

Also, I have seen over the last few decades an occasional film clip of a
suspension bridge (somewhere in the USA I think) swinging and swaying and
twisting, and eventually disintegrating in high winds - the usual
explanation being that its 'natural frequency of vibration was in tune with
that caused by the wind' or something like that. Does anyone know the date
and place, and how I could get some of the footage (avi format?)

Many thanks.

Ted Gallop