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Description: | UT7 8192 VS ( Koenig classification and fequency of the fork, stamped on the fork). RK (Rudolph Koenig monograph). MANU Rudolph Koenig. second half 19th century Paris, France. DES after SHORE,John. 1711 London, England. DES This is one of a set of sixteen tuning forks bought in the 19th Century by Lord Kelvin for use in a variety of acoustic demonstrations.
This fork has an old classification UT 7 which is a frequency of 8192 Hertz and represents the seventh harmonic of the base tone UT that has a frequency of 64 Hertz. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | SCIENTIFIC COLLECTION : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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