Kundt’s Apparatus
notes: label: Description
content: Glass tube with brass fittings designed in 1866 by August Kundt, a young German physicist. It was used for such experiments as demonstrating vibrations in a tube, and measuring the velocity of sound. This example came from Dunbar High School in Washington, D.C.
label: Description
content: Ref: L. E. Knott, <i>Catalogue of Physical Instruments</i> (Boston, 1912), p. 256.
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.323748
label: catalog number
content: 323748
label: accession number
content: 252354
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Kundt's apparatus (acoustic)
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 129.5 cm x 3.2 cm; x 51 in x 1 1/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 51 in x 3 1/2 in x 1 1/2 in; 129.54 cm x 8.89 cm x 3.81 cm