Siren
Siren
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- Description
- Traditionally, only musicians could reliably produce tones of a specific frequency. With a siren, even scientists could produce specific tones. Charles Cagniard de la Tour (1777-1859), a French engineer, described the first successful siren in 1819. This example is of that sort. It came from the Department of Physics at Indiana University. The inscription reads “Jas. W. Queen & Co. / Philadelphia.”
- Ref: Charles Cagniard de la Tour, “Sur la Sirene, nouvelle machine d’accoustique destinee a mesurer les vibrations de l’air qui contien le son,” Annales de Chemie et de Physique 12 (1819): 167-171.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- siren
- Measurements
- overall: 15 in x 10 in; 38.1 cm x 25.4 cm
- overall: 14 3/8 in x 9 3/4 in; 36.5125 cm x 24.765 cm
- ID Number
- 1992.0140.02
- catalog number
- 1992.0140.02
- accession number
- 1992.0140
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Department of Physics, Indiana University
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- Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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