Gunnison Valley News | 1930-07-03 | Page 6 | Abundant Proofs that Sound Waves can Kill

Abundant Proofs That Sound Waves Can Kill break a wine blass but can damage a building. It Is suspected that the deep, vibrating notes of organs can cause vibrations which may nctmilly weaken the structure of a church or cathedral. Living creatures can be struck dead by sound waves too highly pitched for the human ear to hear them, writes T. C. Bridges. These high frequency waves called super-sonlcs have been tried on animals and produced instant death. The sound appears to shatter the blood corpuscles, and death is as sure and sudden as if t he creatures hnd been struck by lightning. Sound can do many things which seem mysterious mys-terious and almost miraculous. For Instance, tire can he extinguished by sound. Some little time ago Mr. Charles Kellogg of California gave n demonstration of the power of sound over flame, and by drawing a violin bow across a piece of aluminum extinguished ex-tinguished a hunrn-j gas Jet at 50 feet. Sound viln-- "mis can not only