Johann Scheibler

Johann Heinrich Scheibler.

Johann Heinrich Scheibler (11 November 1777 – 20 January 1837) was a silk manufacturer of Crefeld, without a scientific background, who went on to make contributions to the science of acoustics.^[1] He made a "tonometer" from 56 tuning forks as an instrument for accurately measuring pitch.^[2][3]

References

1. Dayton Clarence Miller (1935). Anecdotal history of the science of sound to the beginning of the 20th century. The Macmillan Company. p. 55.
2. Robert Thomas Beyer (1999). Sounds of our times: two hundred years of acoustics. Springer. p. 32. ISBN 978-0-387-98435-3.
3. Journal of the Society of Arts, Vol 28, p. 299. Study of Scheibler's Tonometer by Alexander Ellis