Acoustic Resonator
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. This particular resonator would have been used for that type of experiment. The inscription on the base reads “RUDOLPH KOENIG A PARIS.”
label: Description
content: Ref: James W. Queen & Co., <i>Priced and Illustrated Catalogue of Physical Instruments/i> (Philadelphia, 1888). p. 46.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Weston College
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.328479
label: accession number
content: 271661
label: catalog number
content: 328479
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Resonance Apparatus
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 1/2 in x 31 in x 11 in; 36.83 cm x 78.74 cm x 27.94 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 1/4 in x 30 1/2 in x 11 1/2 in; 36.195 cm x 77.47 cm x 29.21 cm