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

Hammack, Bill; Kranz, Steve; Carpenter, Bruce

 
9780983966173: Albert Michelson's Harmonic Analyzer: A Visual Tour of a Nineteenth Century Machine that Performs Fourier Analysis
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0983966176 ISBN 13: 9780983966173
Publisher: Articulate Noise Books, 2014

Synopsis

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 computers. One hundred and fifty color photos reveal the analyzer’s beauty though full-page spreads, lush close-ups of its components, and archival photos of other Michelson-inspired analyzers. The book includes sample output from the machine and a reproduction of an 1898 journal article by Michelson, which first detailed the analyzer. The book is the official companion volume to the popular YouTube video series created by the authors.

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Publisher
Articulate Noise Books
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0983966176
ISBN 13 
9780983966173
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
128

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