Acoustic Apparatus
name: label: Maker
content: Rudolph Koenig
notes: label: Description
content: This acoustic apparatus consists of four metal tubes that produce a chord when their pistons (missing in this example) are successively drawn. It was probably purchased for the Smithsonian by Joseph Henry, the physicist who served as founding Secretary of the Institution. The inscription reads “Koenig a Paris.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Rudolph Koenig, <i>Catalogue des Appareils d’Acoustique</i> (Paris, 1865), p. 3.
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.315169
label: catalog number
content: 315169
label: accession number
content: 219145
objectType: label: Object Name
content: acoustic apparatus
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 36.8 cm x 14.8 cm x 37 cm; 14 1/2 in x 5 13/16 in x 14 9/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 5/8 in x 5 3/4 in x 14 1/2 in; 37.1475 cm x 14.605 cm x 36.83 cm