Seismograph

created by Webster 1913

(thing) by Wintersweet (1.3 y) (print) ? (I like it!) 1 C! Sun Apr 09 2000 at 21:47:52

The earliest known seismographs are found in China. For at least two thousand years, the elaborate bronze sculpture has been used as both a seismic warning system, and identifies the direction and strength of the earthquake. It's ringed by dragons with bronze pearls in their mouths, which drop, ringing, into the mouths of sculpted frogs. Very cool idea.

(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Wed Dec 22 1999 at 2:59:25

Seis"mo*graph (?), n. [Gr. an earthquake + -graph.] Physics

An apparatus for registering the shocks and undulatory motions of earthquakes.

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