Manometric Apparatus
notes: label: Description
content: This manometric apparatus, consisting of a circular brass platform with three jets and a mahogany screen, was probably made by Koenig, and probably purchased for the Smithsonian by Joseph Henry, the physicist who served as founding Secretary of the Institution.
label: Description
content: Ref: Rudolph Koenig, <i>Catalogue des Appareils d’Acoustique</i> (Paris, 1889), p. 84.
label: Description
content: David Pantalony, <i>Altered Sensations: Rudolph Koenig’s Acoustical Workshop in Nineteenth-Century Paris</i> (2009), p. 58
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.325952
label: accession number
content: 258285
label: catalog number
content: 325952
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Acoustic Interference Flame Apparatus
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 cm x 8 cm; 4 11/32 in x 3 5/32 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 in x 3 3/16 in; 12.7 cm x 8.09625 cm