Text: Even if we could observe and follow with the finest researching instruments now in existence, the molecular oscillations under acceleration, we could not determine their frequencies. Direct observation is not only impossible, but would also, even if possible, be unreliable. "My researches indicate but one reliable method of ascertaining the exact molecular frequencies and range of vibration. A wire should have placed on it a definite number of nodes of the three metals silver, gold and platinum, and an acoustic introductory impulse should be given. We must now compute the intermittent periodic disturbances (molecular vibration time intervals) by adjusting the spaces between the nodes to such a distance apart as will equalize by their respective frequency-multiplying power, the chord masses of the nodal interferences between the three nodal metals. (Nodal here refers to the metal beads, not the vibration nodes as set up in a vibrating string.) This will determine the rate of molecular oscillation induced beyond the normal and give definite values of vibrations thousands of billions of times exceeding the frequency of light." When nodes of silver, gold and platinum, respectively, are placed upon a homogenous wire acting as a transmitter of resonant vibrations, these nodes indicate by the different orders of vibration, or induced frequencies, the atomic oscillating frequency of the transmitting wire.

See Also: GOLD; SILVER; PLATINUM; TREXNONAR; TREXAR; TRIUNE FLOW

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