Knipp’s Singing Tubes
name: label: maker
content: Central Scientific Company
notes: label: Description
content: Charles T. Knipp (1870-1948), a professor of physics at the University of Illinois, found that a glass tube emitted a musical sound under the heating action of a glass flame. This item, from the Department of Physics at Columbia University, is a commercial version of that experiment. A paper label in the box reads “KNIPP’S SINGING TUBES” and “CENTRAL SCIENTIFIC COMPANY.”
label: Description
content: Ref: F. R. Watson, “Knipp’s Singing Tubes,” <i>Science</i> 53 (1921): 393-395.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Columbia University
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2001.0162.10
label: catalog number
content: 2001.0162.10
label: accession number
content: 2001.0162
objectType: label: Object Name
content: singing tubes, Knipp's
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3.5 cm x 6 cm x 26 cm; 1 3/8 in x 2 3/8 in x 10 1/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/2 in x 10 1/8 in x 2 3/8 in; 3.81 cm x 25.7175 cm x 6.0325 cm