Object name: Sonometer
Maker: Central Scientific
Serial / Maker's No: See "References" below.
Patent Date / Patent No / Date of Manufacture: 1901-1929
Length: 62"
Width/Depth: 5.5"
Height: 3.5"
Diameter:
Weight:
Description: Two wires capable of being put under variable tension. Spring sccales made by Chatillon (Chatillon's Improved Spring Balance) Tension adjustments at both ends. 1 meter between knife edges; probably used to observe standing waves or other properties of vibrating strings. Two bridges missing.
References: Similar to and probaboly earlier than F3609 in Cenco catalog F, pg. 432. This type said to have been introduced by Cenco in 1901. 
Provenance: Trinity College 
Inventory Number: TS002

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