Siren
notes: label: Description
content: Before the invention of the siren, only musicians could reliably produce tones of a specific frequency. With a siren, specific tones could be produced mechanically. Charles Cagniard de la Tour (1777-1859), a French engineer, described the first successful siren in 1819. This instrument is of that sort.
label: Description
content: Ref: Charles Cagniard de la Tour, “Sur la Sirene, nouvelle machine d’accoustique destinee a mesurer les vibrations de l’air qui contien le son,” Annales de Chemie et de Physique 12 (1819): 167-171.
label: Description
content: Rudolph Koenig, <i>Catalogue des Appareils d’Acoustique</i> (Paris, 1865), p. 5.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.337119
label: accession number
content: 1979.0026
label: catalog number
content: 337119
objectType: label: Object Name
content: siren
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 20.3 cm x 10.2 cm x 8.4 cm; 8 in x 4 1/32 in x 3 5/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/4 in x 4 in x 3 1/4 in; 20.955 cm x 10.16 cm x 8.255 cm