Acoustic Instrument Support
name: label: maker
content: Rudolph Koenig
notes: label: Description
content: This heavy steel support was designed to hold a tuning fork in a Lissajous experiment. It was made by Rudolph Koenig in Paris, and acquired for the Smithsonian by Joseph Henry, the physicist who served as the founding Secretary of the Institution. An inscription reads "RK".
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
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: PH.314733.01
label: catalog number
content: 314733.01
label: accession number
content: 210894
objectType: label: Object Name
content: instrument support, acoustic
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 57.5 cm x 49 cm x 35 cm; 22 5/8 in x 19 5/16 in x 13 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall with bar set high: 24 3/8 in x 13 1/2 in x 12 in; 61.9125 cm x 34.29 cm x 30.48 cm