Tag: History of Science

Press-Ewing Seismograph on Jeopardy!

by | 6.7.2012 at 9:20am
Scientific American featured the Press-Ewing on its cover in 1959

An important piece of earthquake-science history popped up a few weeks ago on Jeopardy!: “The Press-Ewing was an early seismograph, recording waves from these events. If you didn’t know a Press-Ewing from a French press, you were in luck. For $200, all you needed to know to formulate the question is what a seismograph measures. What is an Earthquake?