What is this?

[kach22i]

Does anyone here understand Italian?

From here:

http://www.na.infn.it/Museum/schede/59.htm

It's not a speaker is it? Kind of looks like something Bob Carver would come up with if he lived a hundred years ago.

 

[SteveInNC]

Does anyone here understand Italian?

From here:

http://www.na.infn.it/Museum/schede/59.htm

It's not a speaker is it? Kind of looks like something Bob Carver would come up with if he lived a hundred years ago.

Here is the automated babelfish.altavista.com translation. It appears to be a sound analyzer or demonstrator for harmonics. I'd love to know what the rotating mirror does - note the crank at the bottom-left.

Analyzer of sounds of König

The sounds produced from the vibration of ropes, tubes and other instruments are not never simple. Famous the fundamental one always is accompanied from notes of smaller intensity, in simple relationships with before, said harmonic sounds. The apparatus devised and realized from the German physicist Karl Rudolph König (1832-1901) servants just to evidence the members more important than a data sound. Analyzing a sound through this apparatus it can be stated like a same fundamental note, played from various instruments, is accompanied from somewhat various harmonic sounds between of they.

 

[TomDac]

doorbells.
boobs.

Something that looks like it came out of an Indiana Jones movie...

Cool lookin' though.

Tom.

 

[Jeff Zaret]

I believe the answer to the question/mystery can be found here

http://physics.kenyon.edu/EarlyAppa...aratus/Fourier_Analysis/Fourier_Analysis.html


Jeff

 

[Jeff Zaret]

.......and yes Tom I was thinking it was something out of a sex museum but was trying to refrain from that
LOL

Jeff

 

[kach22i]

Cool, thanks for the research guys.

If I ever find one of these, I'm buying it.

Guess I'll have to move that semi-worthless subwoofer of mine out of the corner to make room for one.

 

[SteveInNC]

I believe the answer to the question/mystery can be found here

http://physics.kenyon.edu/EarlyAppa...aratus/Fourier_Analysis/Fourier_Analysis.html


Jeff

Oh cool, Duke is nearby - I might have to see if I can get access to see this. I have a feeeling that they don't go for 325 francs anymore... I'd buy one as a piece of art.

 

[rtagle]

I believe the answer to the question/mystery can be found here

http://physics.kenyon.edu/EarlyAppa...aratus/Fourier_Analysis/Fourier_Analysis.html


Jeff

Jeff,

You must be so knowledgeable when it comes to musical instruments and gadgets! I'm amazed how you found the answer specially if you don't even have a clue what it is. Did you?

Rudy

 

[Jeff Zaret]

Rudy,
Musical instruments yes but the clue was in the original link to Koenig and I just did research on his inventions

Jeff