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

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

Bill Hammack, Steve Kranz, Bruce Carpenter

128 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history science
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 This book 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 computers. One hundred and fift...

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