Wheatstone Reeds
notes: label: Description
content: Charles Wheatstone (1802-1875) was born into a family of musical instrument makers and dealers, and became interested in acoustics at an early age. His 1829 British patent (#5803) for “Wind Musical Instruments” described a mouth organ with a set of free reeds. This set of reeds came to the Smithsonian from King’s College, London, where Wheatstone served as Professor of Experimental Physics.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
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: 1990.0539.48
label: catalog number
content: 1990.0539.48
label: accession number
content: 1990.0539
objectType: label: Object Name
content: reed
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ivory (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7/8 in x 4 3/4 in x 2 11/16 in; 2.2225 cm x 12.065 cm x 6.82625 cm