Dropping Sticks
date: label: Date made
content: 1858-1902
name: label: maker
content: Koenig, Rudolph
notes: label: Description
content: The eight dropping sticks in this set produce a musical scale when dropped consecutively onto a floor or table. The sticks are numbered 1 through 8. One is stamped “Rudolf Koenig.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Rudolph Koenig, <i>Catalogue des Appareils d’Acoustique</i> (Paris, 1865), p. 3.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1987.0924.05
label: accession number
content: 1987.0924
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0924.05
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dropping stocks
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall, each: 1/4 in x 8 3/8 in x 1 1/8 in; .635 cm x 21.2725 cm x 2.8575 cm