Fizeau
Americannoun
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First terrestrial measurement was made in 1849 by Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau of France, who passed a beam of light through the teeth of a spinning cogwheel.
From Time Magazine Archive
Experiments made by Fizeau with running water seemed to prove the one view, those of Michelson and Morley, involving the movement of the earth, the other view.
From Man or Matter by Ernst Lehrs
Fizeau was unable to observe interference when the difference of path amounted to 50,000 wave lengths.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 633, February 18, 1888 by Various
Fizeau, from experiments which he conducted on running water, also came to the same conclusion.
From Aether and Gravitation by William George Hooper
Fizeau, and more recently by A. Apps and modern inventors.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" by Various
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