Sonometer
name: label: used at
content: Cornell University
label: maker
content: Koenig, Rudolph
notes: label: Description
content: A sonometer demonstrates the relationship between the frequency of the sound produced by a plucked string, and the tension, length and mass per unit length of the string. This example has two strings and a “RUDOLPH KOENIG/ A PARIS” inscription. Rudolph Koenig (1832-1901) began his career in Kőnigsberg, moved to Paris in 1851, apprenticed with a violin maker, and established an instrument shop in 1858.
label: Description
content: Ref: David Pantalony, <i>Altered Sensations: Rudolph Koenig’s Acoustical Workshop in Nineteenth-Century Paris</i> (2009).
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: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Cornell University Department of Psychology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.300427.118
label: catalog number
content: 300427.118
label: accession number
content: 300427
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Apparatus, Testing, Psychological
label: Object Name
content: sonometer
label: Other Terms
content: Apparatus, Testing, Psychological; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 cm x 14.5 cm x 30.4 cm; 4 3/4 in x 5 11/16 in x 11 15/16 in