Ruling engines and diffraction gratings before Rowland: the work of Lewis Rutherfurd and William Rogers.

Diffraction gratings are famously associated with Henry Rowland of Johns Hopkins University but there were precursors. Although gratings were first made and used in Europe, reliable machines for ruling gratings were developed in the USA, and two men, Lewis Rutherfurd and William Rogers, tackled the...

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Publicado en:	Annals of Science Vol. 75; no. 4; pp. 330 - 361
Autor principal:	Brown, C. N.
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Oct2018
Materias:	Diffraction gratings Rowland, Henry Rutherfurd, Lewis Morris, 1816-1892 Diffractive optical elements Technological innovations
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