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NUMEROUS forms of seismometers have from time to time been invented, and having these various instruments, it may be asked why there is any necessity for a new form, and I can best answer this by quoting from a report of a committee of the British Association of 1872, as follows:—“Some simple and cheap method of indicating earthquake movement is thus much to be desired—any apparatus for the purpose should occupy small space, be little liable to derangement, capable of being put up in any apartment not of special construction, and its indications such as any intelligent person could easily interpret and readily note.”
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A New form of Seismograph 1 . Nature 28, 117–118 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/028117a0
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