Savart Wheel
notes: label: Description
content: In 1681, Robert Hooke showed the Royal Society of London that a rotating toothed wheel could be used to demonstrate the timbre of sound. Felix Savart (1791-1841), a French scientist interested in the lower range of human hearing, built similar instruments in the 1830s. This example was made by Rudolph Koenig in Paris.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Amherst College
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.328742
label: accession number
content: 277678
label: catalog number
content: 328742
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Savart Wheel
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 47.7 cm x 102 cm x 44 cm; 18 25/32 in x 40 5/32 in x 17 5/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 18 7/8 in x 39 7/8 in x 16 7/8 in; 47.9425 cm x 101.2825 cm x 42.8625 cm