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.
