Phonation and articulation as two arts of speech
The article explains how phonation and articulation form two distinct speech arts. Phonation generates emotion via vocal chords, while articulation shapes air in the mouth to convey thoughts, evolving from gesture language to spoken language with evolving tongue and lip use.
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Scientific American
St Richard Paget
London Physical Society
Sir Richard
Coes
Man
Westures
How Man Created Language From Animal Cries And Speech
An account discusses origins of language from animal cries and Aryan root words like da and ay. It explains vocal anatomy including vocal chords, epiglottis, soft palate, and how tongue postures create sounds with model demonstrations of vowel and consonant articulation using clay models and rubber tubes.
Inventor Byron Fry Demonstrates Cal. Catapult Arrows
Glendale California inventor Byron G. Fry displays a wooden handle with two upward bowed wire arms ending in eyes. The device includes a catapult mechanism near the tip designed to shoot arrows.
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Byron G. Fry
Glendale
Cal
Rescue by Dirigible at Horseshoe Lake Illinois
A photograph shows the dirigible T. C. 5 experimentally rescuing Lt. Ralph E. Holmes of the U S Army from drowning near Horseshoe Lake Illinois. Holmes was in a balloon basket that sank to the surface and was saved after the dirigible dropped a rubber boat and later towed the craft to shore.
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Horseshoe Lake
Illinois
Ralph E. Holmes
United States Army
Holmes
The Habitual Nomad: Impulsive Wanderers Studied
William J. Tinkle of Mission House College reports from the Journal of Heredity on habitual nomadism. Nomads wander impulsively and unreasonably, often without leaving deliberate motives, and tend to seek change before returning home. Environment and other traits influence these tendencies.
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Oys
William J. Tinkle
Mission House College
Plymouth
Wis
Journal of Heredity
Floating flower garden concept floats blooms in water
A London inventor Leon Marx proposes a floating flower garden using a cork sheet with holes for stems. Seed sprinkled on cork sprouts into a miniature floating lawn around the blooms, and bulbs placed on the float will germinate to form a tiny floating garden.
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Leon Marx
London
Influenza's Effect on Minds Cited by British Authority
Sir William Hamer argues influenza has long shaped intellectual history. He notes epidemics driven by war famine and crowding hit the young and gifted hardest, with notable writers and philosophers among the victims. The piece discusses how quality of housing feeding and care altered mortality, and mentions Coca’s exchange about shoe widths as a separate topic.
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William Hamer
Sir William
London
Lancet
Chopin
Sterne
Swift
Carlyle
William James
Shakespeare
Cromwell
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