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The seismograph, recording the unfelt motion of distant earthquakes, enables us to see up to a certain point into the Earth and determine its nature with as great a certainty, as if we could drive a tunnel through it and take samples of the matter passed through.

Richard Dixon Oldham

Richard Dixon Oldham

Richard Dixon Oldham

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Born: July 31, 1858

Died: July 15, 1936 (aged 77)

Bio: Richard Dixon Oldham FRS was a British geologist who made the first clear identification of the separate arrivals of P-waves, S-waves and surface waves on seismograms and the first clear evidence that the Earth has a central core.

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