Acoustic Instrument Support
Acoustic Instrument Support
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- Description
- This heavy steel support was designed to hold a tuning fork in a Lissajous experiment. It was made by Rudolph Koenig in Paris, and acquired for the Smithsonian by Joseph Henry, the physicist who served as the founding Secretary of the Institution..
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- instrument support, acoustic
- maker
- Rudolph Koenig
- place made
- France: Île-de-France, Paris
- Measurements
- overall: 57.5 cm x 49 cm x 35 cm; 22 5/8 in x 19 5/16 in x 13 3/4 in
- overall with bar set high: 24 3/8 in x 13 1/2 in x 12 in; 61.9125 cm x 34.29 cm x 30.48 cm
- ID Number
- PH.314733.01
- catalog number
- 314733.01
- accession number
- 210894
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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