Differential Sonometer
notes: label: Description
content: A sonometer demonstrates the relationship between the frequency of the sound produced by a plucked string, and the tension, length and mass per unit length of the string. This two-string example came from the Smithsonian Institution Instrument Room, and was probably made by Rudolph Koenig in Paris. By terming it a Differential Sonometer of Marloye, Koenig indicated that it had been designed by that important French acoustic instrument maker.
label: Description
content: Ref: Rudolph Koenig, <i>Catalogue des Appareils d’Acoustique</i> (Paris, 1865), p. 22.
label: Description
content: David Pantalony, <i>Altered Sensations: Rudolph Koenig’s Acoustical Workshop in Nineteenth-Century Paris</i> (2009).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.314588
label: catalog number
content: 314588
label: accession number
content: 205890
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sonometer, differential
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 1/2 in x 55 in x 8 1/4 in; 26.67 cm x 139.7 cm x 20.955 cm