Loyd S. Swenson, Jr., a professor of history at the University of Houston, is the author of The Ethereal Aether: A History of the Michelson-Morley-Miller Aether-Drift Experiments, 1880-1930 (University of Texas, 1972).
When Albert A. Michelson devised ways to measure the speed of light, he both helped pave the way for relativity and opened a new field of scientific instrumentation
