Charles Michelson

Examples of Charles Michelson in the following topics:

• Hooverville

  • The term was coined by Charles Michelson, publicity chief of the Democratic National Committee.

• The Human Toll

  • These became known as "Hoovervilles," a term coined by Democratic National Committee publicity chief Charles Michelson to slander the name of Republican President Herbert Hoover, whose policies many people blamed for the stock market crash and ensuing Depression.

• The Michelson Interferometer

  • The Michelson interferometer is the most common configuration for optical interferometry.
  • The most common tool in interferometry, the Michelson Interferometer, shown in Figure 1 , was invented by Albert Abraham Michelson, the first American to win a Nobel Prize for science.
  • Figure 3 shows a diagram of how a Michelson Interferometer works.
  • The best known application of the Michelson Interferometer is the Michelson-Morley experiment—a failed attempt to demonstrate the effect of the hypothetical "aether wind" on the speed of light.
  • This diagram of a Michelson Interferometer shows the path that the light waves travels in the instrument.

• Back to Maxwell's Equations

  • Michelson and Morley attempted to measure the motion of the Earth through the aether, but failed.
  • Looking at the Michelson-Morley experiment closely shows what is happening.

• Making a Box Model

  • Box plot of data from the Michelson-Morley Experiment, which attempted to detect the relative motion of matter through the stationary luminiferous aether.

• Charles X and the July Revolution

• Glycocalyx and Capsule

• Glycocalyx

• Flagella

• Fimbrae