Savart’s Bell and Resonator
date: label: date made
content: 1860s
name: label: Maker
content: Rudolph Koenig
notes: label: Description
content: Felix Savart (1791-1841) was a French scientist who, while investigating the physics of sound, joined a brass bell (or bowl) with a moveable wooden resonator. He then bowed or struck the bell, and found that he could modify its loudness by moving the resonator closer or further away. The Smithsonian Institution bought this example of his apparatus in the 1860s, probably from Rudolph Koenig Paris.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.314582
label: catalog number
content: 314582
label: accession number
content: 205890
objectType: label: Object Name
content: resonance apparatus