The Michelson-Morley experiment was remarkable in many ways. Not only did it set the stage for Lorentz, Fitzgerald, Poincare, and finally Einstein to establish the mathematical framework that ...

THIS investigation was undertaken with the view of making a more accurate test than had hitherto been obtained, and may be divided into three parts as follows: ...

It was he who helped devise the Michelson-Morley experiment in interference of light, with bearing on the Einstein theory. But the learned world did not know him as a former naval officer ...