The Dayton C. Miller Flute Collection: A Checklist of the Instruments

The Dayton C. Miller Flute Collection: A Checklist of the Instruments compiled by Laura E. Gilliam & William Lichtenwanger Publisher: Library of Congress, Washington, DC, 1961 Paperback 5.85 x 9.1 inches, 115 pages Dayton Clarence Miller (March 13, 1866 – February 22, 1941) was an American physicist, astronomer, acoustician, and accomplished amateur flautist. An early experimenter of X-rays, Miller was an advocate of aether theory and absolute space and an opponent of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity. Dr. Miller published manuals designed to be student handbooks for the performance of experimental problems in physics. In 1908, Miller's interest in acoustics led him to develop a machine to record sound waves photographically, called the phonodeik. He used the machine to compare the waveforms produced by flutes crafted from different materials.