The Early History of Seismometry (to 1900)

by
James Dewey and Perry Byerly

Contents

• Abstract
• Introduction
• The Earliest Seismoscope
• Seismoscopes in Eighteenth Century Europe
• The "Seismometer" of James Forbes
• Further Studies with Seismoscopes
• The Invention of a Seismograph in Italy
• The Development of the Seismograph in Japan
• The Seismograph Becomes an International Instrument
• Early Studies of "Microseisms"
• The Tilt Controversy
• The Göttingen Seismographs
• Conclusion
• References

From the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. Vol. 59, No. 1, pp. 183-227. February, 1969.