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The audio, On the Teeth of Wheels by Beat Frequency, is a sonification of the [[Stern-Brocot sequence#Quackery]]. It was discovered independently by Moritz Stern (1858) and Achille Brocot (1861), along with its visualisation, the Stern-Brocot tree. Brocot was a watchmaker, and used the sequence to find best approximations for gear ratios.
The book "A Treatise On The Teeth of Wheels, Demonstrating The Best Form Which Can Be Given To Them For The Purposes Of Machinery; Such As Clockwork And Millwork, And The Art Of Finding Their Numbers" predates the sequence, being written by Charles Étienne Louis Camus in 1749-1752, (and translated from French to English by John Isaac Hawkins in 1873), but shows a method relying in part on guesswork to achieve the same end.
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