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Articulate Noise Books<br />
© 2014 Bill Hammack, Steve Kranz, & Bruce Carpenter<br />
All rights reserved. Published 2014<br />
Albert Michelson’s Harmonic Analyzer:<br />
A Visual Tour of a Nineteenth Century Machine that Performs Fourier Analysis<br />
Bill Hammack, Steve Kranz, Bruce Carpenter<br />
ISBN-13: 978-0-9839661-6-6 (hardcover)<br />
ISBN-13: 978-0-9839661-7-3 (paperback)<br />
1. Mathematical instruments—Calculators 2. Michelson, Albert A. (Albert Abraham), 1852–1931<br />
3. Mathematical analysis—Fourier analysis—Fourier Series<br />
Photography and design by Steve Kranz<br />
Epigram<br />
To Michelson:<br />
What manner of man was so wise,<br />
As to make a machine Synthesize<br />
—With springs and levers it combines<br />
Weighted sines or cosines—<br />
And most wondrous of all: Analyze!<br />
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