Manometric Apparatus

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Description:

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.

Ref: Rudolph Koenig, Catalogue des Appareils d’Acoustique (Paris, 1889), p. 84.

David Pantalony, Altered Sensations: Rudolph Koenig’s Acoustical Workshop in Nineteenth-Century Paris (2009), p. 58

Location: Currently not on view

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Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: PH.325952Accession Number: 258285Catalog Number: 325952

Object Name: Acoustic Interference Flame Apparatus

Measurements: overall: 11 cm x 8 cm; 4 11/32 in x 3 5/32 inoverall: 5 in x 3 3/16 in; 12.7 cm x 8.09625 cm

Metadata Usage: CC0

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746aa-3e6f-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_1183867

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