Wave Demonstration Device
date: label: date made
content: after 1867
name: label: maker
content: E. S. Ritchie & Sons
notes: label: Description
content: This longitudinal wave demonstration device came from Clemson College in South Carolina. The inscription on a brass plate reads “E. S. RITCHIE & SONS / BOSTON.” That firm termed it “Snell’s Illustration of Sound Waves, or Waves of Condensation and Rarefaction.” Ebenezer Strong Snell (1801-1876) was a professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at Amherst College who designed and modified several sorts of demonstration apparatus.
label: Description
content: Ref: E. S. Snell, “Account of some new Articles of Philosophical Apparatus,” <i>American Journal of Science</i> 29 (1845): 21-27.
label: Description
content: E. S. Ritchie & Co., <i>Illustrated Catalogue of Philosophical Instruments, and School Apparatus</i> (Boston, 1860), p. 26.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Clemson College
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.325773
label: catalog number
content: 325773
label: accession number
content: 255504
objectType: label: Object Name
content: longitudinal wave model
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 1/8 in x 35 in x 11 3/4 in; 30.7975 cm x 88.9 cm x 29.845 cm