Object Details
- Description
- This type of double siren—essentially two Dove sirens facing one another on the same shaft, and connected to the same air supply—was designed by the German scientist, Hermann von Helmholtz. The “RUDOLPH KOENIG A PARIS" inscriptions on the top of the base and on the top frame identify the maker. The “N. H. EDGERTON PHILA, PA.” inscription on an oval tag refers to Nathan H. Edgerton, the salesman who took over the philosophical instrument business of James W. Queen & Co. in 1875, and who brought this instrument into the United States. This example was used at Smith College in Massachusetts.
- Ref: Rudolph Koenig, Catalogue des Appareils d’Acoustique (Paris, 1865), p. 9.
- Rudolph Koenig, Catalogue des Appareils d’Accoustique (Paris, 1889), p. 15.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Koenig, Rudolph
- Credit Line
- Smith College
- Measurements
- overall: 43.5 cm x 24.5 cm x 45.5 cm; 17 1/8 in x 9 21/32 in x 17 29/32 in
- overall: 17 1/4 in x 9 3/4 in x 17 3/4 in; 43.815 cm x 24.765 cm x 45.085 cm
- Object Name
- siren
