Maker Info
Wilmer C. Anderson
Worked in Cruft Laboratory, Harvard University.
Life magazine, 1939: “Dr. Wilmer C. Anderson of Harvard University, completed the first machine to measure light’s speed automatically, with far greater exactitude than any previous machine.”
Time magazine, 1939: “Physicist Wilmer C. Anderson who, on the basis of his experiments so far, believes he has reduced the margin of error in measuring light’s enormous speed to two and one-half miles per second. When his program of measurements is completed, he expects to have the most accurate figure ever obtained for the velocity of the universe’s fastest thing.”