Miller, Dayton C(larence)
Miller, Dayton C(larence)
Miller, Dayton C(larence), American physicist and flutist; b. Strongsville, Ohio, March 13, 1866; d. Cleveland, Feb. 22, 1941. After graduation from Baldwin Coll. and Princeton Univ. (D.Sc, 1890), he was prof. of physics at the Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland (from 1893). An early interest in the flute led to his experimentation with various versions of the instrument (including a double-bass flute); he accumulated an extensive collection of flutes and various materials relating to the flute, which he left to the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. A leading authority in the field of acoustics and light, he was president of the American Physical Soc. (1925–26) and of the Acoustical Soc. of America (1931–32), and vice-president of the American Musicological Soc. (1939). He pubi. The Science of Musical Sounds (1916; 2nd ed., rev, 1926), Catalogue of Books and Literary Material Relating to the Flute and Other Musical Instruments (1935), Anecdotal History of the Science of Sound to the Beginning of the 20th Century (1935), Sound Waves, Their Shape and Speed (1937), etc.
Bibliography
H. Fletcher, Biographical Memoir of D.C. M. (Washington, D.C., 1944); L. Gilliam and W. Lichtenwanger, The D.C. M. Flute Collection: A Checklist of the Instruments (Washington, D.C, 1961).
—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire