Tuning Fork
notes: label: Description
content: Hartmann’s steel tuning fork with a sliding weight on each tine. Arthur Hartmann (1849-1931), a physician in Berlin who specialized in audiology, introduced the form. The “V. MUELLER & Co. / CHICAGO / 256 / C” inscription is that of Vinzenz Mueller (ca. 1865-1942), a German craftsman who moved to the United States in 1894 and established an instrument shop in Chicago.
label: Description
content: Ref: Apparatus for Testing Hearing in V. Mueller & Co., Surgeons’ Instruments, Office and Hospital Equipment (Chicago, 1916), p. 33.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.302606.313
label: accession number
content: 302606
label: catalog number
content: 302606.313
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Tuning Fork
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 7.5 cm x 3.5 cm x 2 cm; 2 15/16 in x 1 3/8 in x 13/16 in