Bezold Continuous Progression Of Sounds Apparatus
name: label: maker
content: Max Kohl
notes: label: Description
content: Friedrich Bezold (1842-1908) was a professor at the University of Munich who developed hearing tests with tuning forks, and worked to improved education for the hearing impaired. In collaboration with the physician Adolf Edelmann (1885-1939), he developed the continuous progression apparatus. This example, which consists of wood box containing nine tuning forks and two Galton whistles, was made by Max Kohl in Chemnitz.
label: Description
content: Ref: Friedrich Bezold and Friedrich Siebenmann, <i>Text-Book of Otology</i> (Chicago, 1908).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Saxony, Chemnitz
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
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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.300427.086
label: catalog number
content: 300427.086
label: accession number
content: 300427
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Case, Tuning Forks And Whistles
label: Object Name
content: case
label: Object Name
content: case, tuning forks and whistles
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: felt (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13.2 cm x 53.1 cm x 43.3 cm; 5 3/16 in x 20 7/8 in x 17 1/16 in