Johann Scheibler

Johann Heinrich Scheibler

Johann Heinrich Scheibler (11 November 1777 – 20 January 1837) was a silk manufacturer from Crefeld, Prussia, without a scientific background, who went on to make contributions to the science of acoustics.^[1] He made a "tonometer" from 56 tuning forks as an instrument for accurately measuring pitch.^[2][3]

References

1. ↑ Dayton Clarence Miller (1935). Anecdotal history of the science of sound to the beginning of the 20th century. The Macmillan Company. p. 55. 
2. ↑ Robert Thomas Beyer (1999). Sounds of our times: two hundred years of acoustics. Springer. p. 32. ISBN 978-0-387-98435-3. 
3. ↑ Journal of the Society of Arts, Vol 28, p. 299. Study of Scheibler's Tonometer by Alexander Ellis