Acoustic Apparatus
name: label: maker
content: Koenig, Rudolph
notes: label: Description
content: This apparatus consists of three tuning forks (SOL3, MI3, and UT3), each mounted on a wooden resonance box, and a small hammer. It was made by Rudolph Koenig in Paris, and probably acquired for the Smithsonian by Joseph Henry, the physicist who served as founding Secretary of the Institution.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.314952
label: accession number
content: 212903
label: catalog number
content: 314952
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tuning forks
label: Object Name
content: tuning forks (3)
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: large tuning fork: 10 9/16 in x 4 1/2 in x 12 1/8 in; 26.82875 cm x 11.43 cm x 30.7975 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: medium tuning fork: 9 3/4 in x 4 1/16 in x 9 3/4 in; 24.765 cm x 10.31875 cm x 24.765 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: small tuning fork: 9 3/16 in x 3 3/4 in x 7 3/4 in; 23.33625 cm x 9.525 cm x 19.685 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: washer: 1/16 in x 3/4 in; .15875 cm x 1.905 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: hammer: 7/8 in x 2 in x 9 in; 2.2225 cm x 5.08 cm x 22.86 cm