Text: "The molecular state of animal, vegetable and mineral matter depends upon the aggregation of their respective chord centers. It is impossible to make two coins from the same die the same in their molecular aggregation. To produce vibratory devices will require instruments more perfect than any now in existence. One of my perfected instruments shows to the eye the 'molecular effects' produced by the chord of harmony between two neutral centers.( Lissajous' figures?) Another, connected with the `sympathizer' denotes accurately by the color of the sound (or sound combination) the number of vibrations necessary to induce `certain mechanical combination effects'." No condition of absolutely stable equilibrium exists in Nature. The chord of the mass changes, yet we must, through induction of resonance, learn to control the molecular forces. Keely claims to have solved this problem by the invention of a device - his "compound mechanical device" - which brings the chords of all masses within the conditions of a few simple acoustic tests. "If I wish to disturb or bring into action the latent force in any molecular mass, I must first find what the `harmonic chord' or `mass chord' (the fundamental note) of its mass represents - and no two masses are alike. It would seem that this necessitates an infinite number of variations (entirely different scale of resonators) for different masses, but this is not the case. All masses can be resonated by the "compound mechanical device" (resonating spheres, each of which acts as a "sympathizer") which I use for the purpose, which fulfill one general condition and resonate all masses." To illustrate "chord of mass sympathy" Keely filled a glass chamber 40 inches high with water and placed in it three metal spheres each weighing about six ounces, and having the respective mass chords of B flat, first octave E flat, second octave and B flat, third octave, which all rested on the floor of the container. When B flat, first octave was sounded through the transmitter the positive end of which was attached to the cover, the sphere with the corresponding mass chord rose slowly to the top. Upon changing to the negative it descended as gently as it rose. The other spheres moved likewise on sounding their respective mass chords. This indicates that the conclusion reached by the Scholastic school is correct, in that: "WHEN ONE BODY ATTRACTS ANOTHER BODY, THE EFFECT IS AGGREGATE, THE RESULT OF ONE WHOLE OPERATING ON ANOTHER WHOLE, AND NOT THE SUM OF THE EFFECTS OF THE PARTS OF ONE ON THE PARTS OF THE OTHER."

See Also: CHORD OF MASS

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