Siren
name: label: maker
content: Koenig, Rudolph
notes: label: Description
content: August Seebeck (1805-1849), director of the technical high-school in Dresden, described a siren of this sort in 1841. This example came from the Smithsonian Instrument Room, and was probably purchased by Joseph Henry, the physicist who served as founding Secretary of the Institution. Rudolph Koenig, in Paris, advertised it as the Large Siren of Seebeck and charged an astonishing 800 Fr.
label: Description
content: Ref: Rudolph Koenig, <i>Catalogue des Appareils d’Acoustique</i> (Paris, 1865), p. 7.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Transfer from S.I. Instrument Room, Feb. 3, 1955
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.314584
label: accession number
content: 205890
label: catalog number
content: 314584
objectType: label: Object Name
content: acoustic siren
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 21 5/8 in x 20 1/4 in x 18 5/16 in; 54.9275 cm x 51.435 cm x 46.51375 cm