Singing Flame Apparatus
name: label: Maker
content: Rudolph Koenig
notes: label: Description
content: Rudolph Koenig referred to this as a Singing Flame Apparatus as described by Count Schaffgotsch, a physicist in Berlin. This example was probably purchased for the Smithsonian by Joseph Henry, the physicist who served as founding Secretary of the Institution. The inscription reads “Rudolph Koenig a Paris.”
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
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
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.315171
label: catalog number
content: 315171
label: accession number
content: 219145
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Sensitive Flame Apparatus
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 5/8 in x 18 in x 13 3/8 in; 16.8275 cm x 45.72 cm x 33.9725 cm