Sonometer
name: label: Maker
content: Rudolph Koenig
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 is a monochord, with only one string. It came from the Smithsonian Institution Instrument Room, and was probably made by Rudolph Koenig in Paris.
label: Description
content: Ref: Rudolph Koenig, <i>Catalogue des Appareils d’Acoustique</i> (Paris, 1865).
label: Description
content: David Pantalony, <i>Altered Sensations: Rudolph Koenig’s Acoustical Workshop in Nineteenth-Century Paris</i> (2009).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
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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.314587
label: catalog number
content: 314587
label: accession number
content: 205890
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sonometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 12.7 cm x 110 cm x 16.5 cm; 5 in x 43 5/16 in x 6 1/2 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 in x 43 in x 6 3/8 in; 12.7 cm x 109.22 cm x 16.1925 cm