mostlysignssomeportents: Mesmerizing rebuild of a…

mostlysignssomeportents:

Mesmerizing rebuild of a mechanical Fourier calculator

Albert Michelson’s harmonic analyzer — a 19th century mechanical
calculator that can do Fourier analysis with just gears, springs and
levers — was found at the University of Illinois, and then lovingly
restored by a trio of makers who lavishly documented it in a book (free PDF/paperback/hardcover) and a mesmerizing video series.

Albert Michelson’s Harmonic Analyzer: A Visual Tour of a Nineteenth Century Machine that Performs Fourier Analysis [Book]

Albert Michelson’s Harmonic Analyzer [Youtube]

Albert Michelson’s Harmonic Analyzer (book details) [Free PDF]

Read the rest…

sixpenceee: Kilian Schönberger is a photographer from Germany,…

sixpenceee:

Kilian Schönberger is a photographer from Germany, but his childhood was full of those misty landscapes which later inspired him to make a Brothers Grimm’s Homeland series. In this series, he captures all the spooky ambient of the time. 

Moreover, his capturing of Grimm fairytale-landscapes brings to life the general spooky, sinister, dark ambient of the time, showing that not just children, but the adults too experience shivers and goosebumps when seeing the homeland of the Brothers. So, it’s not really surprising that they wrote such terrifying tales. (Source)

archiemcphee: Here in the northern hemisphere the vernal…

archiemcphee:

Here in the northern hemisphere the vernal equinox just occurred, signaling that spring has officially begun. Awesome! Assuming the weather is behaving itself (we know some of you just got even more snow), this means there should be plenty of rain on the way. James Chapman (previously featured here) is here to teach us the onomatopoetic words for rain in seven different languages, including three different types of rain in Japanese.

chapmangamo:

Japan, you have a sound for everything.
(Disclaimer: pitter patter is used in England, maybe not everywhere else?)

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