Siren
name: label: maker
content: Koenig, Rudolph
notes: label: Description
content: This type of double siren—essentially two Dove sirens facing one another on the same shaft, and connected to the same air supply—was designed by the German scientist, Hermann von Helmholtz. The “RUDOLPH KOENIG A PARIS" inscriptions on the top of the base and on the top frame identify the maker. The “N. H. EDGERTON PHILA, PA.” inscription on an oval tag refers to Nathan H. Edgerton, the salesman who took over the philosophical instrument business of James W. Queen & Co. in 1875, and who brought this instrument into the United States. This example was used at Smith College in Massachusetts.
label: Description
content: Ref: Rudolph Koenig, <i>Catalogue des Appareils d’Acoustique</i> (Paris, 1865), p. 9.
label: Description
content: Rudolph Koenig, <i>Catalogue des Appareils d’Accoustique</i> (Paris, 1889), p. 15.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
topic: label: Subject
content: Women's History
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Smith College
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0098.02
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0098.02
label: accession number
content: 1980.0098
objectType: label: Object Name
content: siren
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 43.5 cm x 24.5 cm x 45.5 cm; 17 1/8 in x 9 21/32 in x 17 29/32 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 17 1/4 in x 9 3/4 in x 17 3/4 in; 43.815 cm x 24.765 cm x 45.085 cm