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(2/4) Synthesis: A machine that uses gears, springs and levers to add sines and cosines

Engineerguy videos & audio by Bill Hammack

Nov 26, 20145:41Education

This series on Albert Michelson’s Harmonic Analyzer celebrates a nineteenth century mechanical computer that performed Fourier analysis by using gears, springs and levers to calculate with sines and cosines—an astonishin...

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