Acoustic Apparatus
notes: label: Description
content: This apparatus, which consists of two glass pipes of different diameters mounted on a vertical stand, shows that the sound produced by a column of air is a function of both diameter and length. It came from the Smithsonian Institution Instrument Room, was probably made by Koenig in Paris, and was probably purchased by Joseph Henry, the physicist who served as founding Secretary of the Smithsonian.
label: Description
content: Ref: Rudolph Koenig, <i>Catalogue des Appareils d’Acoustique</i> (Paris, 1865), p. 20.
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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.315175
label: catalog number
content: 315175
label: accession number
content: 219145
objectType: label: Object Name
content: resonating tubes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 36 in x 12 1/2 in x 11 1/2 in; 91.44 cm x 31.75 cm x 29.21 cm