Word: seismographer
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...world-famed seismologist, dean of St. Louis University's Institute of Technology, president of the American Geophysical Union, author (Theoretical Seismology); of a liver infection; in St. Louis. A top authority on earthquakes, Jesuit Macelwane developed a system for tracking hurricanes, pioneered in the use of the seismograph to detect oil deposits...
...front, he set up shop as a maker of wooden knickknacks. His real work he did at night, painting abstractions that reflected the grimness of the times. Says Winter of one typical painting, which shows four heavy, black hammer forms relentlessly assaulting a doomed crystalline structure: "I was a seismograph; I was under a heavy weight in those years...
...course of French history can only be traced with a seismograph. It is never more in need of one than through the 81 years which began with the French Revolution (1789) and ended, with another revolution, in the unseating of Napoleon III (1870). In the course of those years, France was twice a republic, twice an empire, thrice a kingdom (Louis XVIII, Charles X, Louis Philippe). Napoleon III, creator of the Second Empire, spent 18 years trying to impose on France an order resembling that created by his notorious uncle...
...time the first H-bomb was to be exploded, Teller had left Los Alamos to organize a nuclear weapons laboratory at Livermore, Calif. ("Science . . . thrives on friendly competition"). He watched for the results of the first H-bomb, "Mike," on a University of California seismograph. Teller writes: "The room was completely dark except for the tiny luminous spot that the pencil of light threw on the photographic paper . . . Soon the luminous point gave me the feeling of being aboard a gently and irregularly moving vessel, so I braced a pencil on a piece of the apparatus and held it close...
...duty in Hawaii National Park early Election Day, Vulcanologist Gordon MacDonald noticed telltale marks on the seismograph. After some quick calculations, he phoned Hilo police about a severe and distant earthquake. Seismic sea waves, he figured, might hit the Hawaiian Islands in about three hours...