'Mystery still attaches to certain explosive Sounds, heard in various parts of the world, and known to' science as "brontides." On the coast of Belgium these sounds seems to • come from the sea, and are called locally "mistpoeffers." In the Ganges delta, of India, similar sounds are called guns." Brontides a.re well known in some parts of Italy, where they bear a great variety of names. In Haiti a sound of this character is known as the "gouffre," while in parts of Australia it is called the "desert sound." Brontides mostly take the form of muffled detonations, of indefinite direction. Probably they are of subterranean origin. Studies of eccentricities in the transmission of sound through the atmosphere lead to the conclusion that some of the sounds hitherto reported as brontides were really due to cannonading or blasting. —Popular Science Monthly.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AG19190830.2.33.3
Bibliographic details
Ashburton Guardian, Volume XL, Issue 9897, 30 August 1919, Page 5
Word Count
140
Page 5 Advertisements Column 3
Ashburton Guardian, Volume XL, Issue 9897, 30 August 1919, Page 5
Ashburton Guardian Ltd is the copyright owner for the Ashburton Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Ashburton Guardian Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in