Singing Flame Apparatus
notes: label: Description
content: Count Schaffgotsch, a physicist in Berlin, described an instrument of this sort in 1857. Rudolph Koenig termed it a Singing Flame Apparatus. This unmarked example came from the Department of Physics at Columbia University.
label: Description
content: Ref: Count Schaffgotsch, “Acoustic Experiments,” <i>London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science</i> 14 (1857): 541-544.
label: Description
content: Rudolph Koenig, <i>Catalogue des Appareils d’Acoustique</i> (Paris, 1889), 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: 2001.0162.12
label: catalog number
content: 2001.0162.12
label: accession number
content: 2001.0162
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Singing Flame Apparatus
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 33 1/2 in x 16.5 cm x 10.3 cm; 85.09 cm x 6 1/2 in x 4 1/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 in x 4 in x 6 3/8 in; 33.02 cm x 10.16 cm x 16.1925 cm