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 |