Nature's Miracles Volume II: Energy and Vibration: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Nature's Miracles Volume II: Energy and Vibration, credited to Elisha Gray, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Nature's Miracles Volume II: Energy and Vibration, by Elisha Gray. Elisha Gray was an American electrical engineer who co-founded the Western Electric Manufacturing Company. Gray is best known for his development of a telephone prototype in 1876 in Highland Park, Illinois and is considered by some writers to be the true inventor of the variable resistance telephone, despite losing out to Alexander Graham Bell for the telephone patent. Nature’s Miracles: Familiar Talks on Science, published in 1900, is a discussion of science and technology for the general public. Volume II is subtitled Energy and Vibration: Energy, Sound, Heat, Light, Explosives. (Summary from Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Nature's Miracles Volume II: Energy and Vibration
• Author credits: Elisha Gray
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 32
• Listed recording duration: 5:40:47

Catalogue topics

• Science
• nature
• physics

Opening tracks: first 24 of 32

1. 00 - To the Reader — 2:11
2. 01 - Energy - Chapter I. Energy a Constant Quantity — 22:38
3. 02 - Energy - Chapter II. Energy of Motion and of Position — 12:54
4. 03 - Energy - Chapter III. The Forces of Nature — 11:53
5. 04 - Energy - Chapter IV. Transmutation of Energy — 21:40
6. 05 - Energy - Chapter V. Energy in Relation to Life — 10:29
7. 06 - Vibration - Chapter VI. Sound — 17:06
8. 07 - Vibration - Chapter VII. Echo and Resonance — 11:00
9. 08 - Vibration - Chapter VIII. Sound-sympathy — 6:58
10. 09 - Vibration - Chapter IX. Noise and Music — 7:21
11. 10 - Vibration - Chapter X. Music and Musicians — 17:19
12. 11 - Vibration - Chapter XI. Sound-interference — 6:42
13. 12 - Vibration - Chapter XII. Sound-language — 6:43
14. 13 - Vibration - Chapter XIII. Heat and Matter — 13:27
15. 14 - Vibration - Chapter XIV. Expansion — 14:42
16. 15 - Vibration - Chapter XV. Terrestrial Heat — 6:35
17. 16 - Vibration - Chapter XVI. Generation of Heat — 12:28
18. 17 - Vibration - Chapter XVII. Diffusion of Heat — 6:42
19. 18 - Vibration - Chapter XVIII. Radiation of Heat — 6:58
20. 19 - Light - Chapter XIX. Sun's Rays — 16:42
21. 20 - Light - Chapter XX. The Science of Light — 7:06
22. 21 - Light - Chapter XXI. Light and Ether — 14:59
23. 22 - Light - Chapter XXII. Color — 13:24
24. 23 - Light - Chapter XXIII. Transparency — 8:26

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