Manometric Apparatus, Stand
notes: label: Description
content: In 1862, Rudolph Koenig, an acoustic instrument maker in Paris, devised a manometric apparatus in which the flame of a burning gas jet vibrates in response to the variations in pressure of a sound wave. Three years later, the Société d’Encouragement pour l’Industrie Nationale awarded him a gold medal, noting that “The most curious of all his inventions is . . . without doubt the one that uses gas flames as a means for revealing the vibratory movements of air.”
label: Description
content: This stand for a manometric apparatus was probably made by Koenig, and probably purchased for the Smithsonian by Joseph Henry, the physicist who served as founding Secretary of the Institution.
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content: Ref: Rudolph Koenig, <i>Catalogue des Appareils d’Acoustique</i> (Paris, 1889), p. 84.
label: Description
content: David Pantalony, <i>Altered Sensations: Rudolph Koenig’s Acoustical Workshop in Nineteenth-Century Paris</i> (2009), p. 58
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.325953
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content: 325953
label: accession number
content: 258285
objectType: label: Object Name
content: stand for acoustic manometric apparatus
label: Object Name
content: manometric apparatus, stand
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 47.3 cm x 9 cm; 18 5/8 in x 3 17/32 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 18 3/4 in x 3 9/16 in; 47.625 cm x 9.04875 cm