Resonance Box
name: label: maker
content: Marloye, Albert
notes: label: Description
content: A resonance box demonstrates the travel of sound in water: a glass of water would be set in the cup on the box, and a tuning fork placed in the glass. The “Marloye et Cie Paris” inscription on this example refers to Albert Marloye (1795-1874), the French acoustic instrument maker who introduced the form in 1839.
label: Description
content: Ref: P. A. Daguin, <i>Traite Elementaire de Physique</i> (Paris, 1867), vol. 1, p. 452.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: United States Military Academy
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.315723.2
label: accession number
content: 217544
label: catalog number
content: 315723.2
objectType: label: Object Name
content: resonance box
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 13.5 cm x 11.3 cm x 31.3 cm; 5 5/16 in x 4 7/16 in x 12 5/16 in