Albert Michelson's Harmonic Analyzer: A Visual Tour of a Nineteenth Century Machine that Performs Fourier Analysis by Bill Hammack, Bruce Carpenter, Steve Kranz

Albert Michelson's Harmonic Analyzer: A Visual Tour of a Nineteenth Century Machine that Performs Fourier Analysis

Bill Hammack, Bruce Carpenter, Steve Kranz

130 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history science
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Albert Michelson's Harmonic Analyzer celebrates a nineteenth century mechanical calculator that performed Fourier analysis by using gears, springs and levers to calculate with sines and cosines-an astonishing feat in an age before electronic comp...

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