Show 111 cc IaIrr mnl Hiram S Maxim In Ixiudon Engineering Engi-neering auggmtB be adoption of a standard of sound claiming that It might be n ready means of deciding aomo complicated questions which lira brought before tho courts lip tills means It might be distinctly decided for Instance whether noise In house caused by vibrations of machinery In neighboring central stations In or U I not rrealcr than the ordinary uolto of street truffle Ho believes that the noise pro duced by n passing cab Is I much less than that produced by a central station sta-tion Ho suggests as n starter that a kind of phonograph bo employed In making a record on smoked glaze which could bo enlarged In a lantern and by this means n noise made by n factory for Instance might be compared com-pared with that produced by n Salvation Salva-tion Army band or other disagreeable sound whlrh are tolerated by law Asa As-a standard of noise bo surigosta a shot of a certain site dropped from a certain height on to some standardlud diaphragm dia-phragm Iho watea being recorded at My Ilvo meter distance |