steel tuning fork in fitted wooden case
Date: circa 1850
Inventory Number: 1998-1-0676
Classification: Tuning Fork
Maker: Albert Marloye (1795 - 1874)
User: Department of Physics, Harvard University (founded 1884)
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Dimensions:
tuning fork: 12.2 × 1.9 × 1.3 cm (4 13/16 × 3/4 × 1/2 in.)
case: 11.7 × 2.4 × 1.1 cm (4 5/8 × 15/16 × 7/16 in.)
Accessories: walnut case
Description:
Small steel tuning fork in fitted case of walnut.
In Collection(s)
Signedon paper sticker, handwritten: Marloye
Inscribedin brown ink on paper label on case: No. 1 / Diapson / Marloye 853 1/3
stamped in white paint on case: 23-13
in ink on paper label on case: 21-2-9
stamped in white paint on case: 23-13
in ink on paper label on case: 21-2-9
Curatorial RemarksVery similar to 1998-1-0705 and 1998-1-0710.
Primary SourcesAlbert Marloye, Catalogue des principaux appareils d'acoustique et autres objets qui se fabriquent chez Marloye à Paris, rue Saint-Jacques, 161 et rue des Fossés-Saint-Jacques, 1, 3rd ed. (Paris: Impr. de Bonaventure et Ducessois, 1851).
ProvenanceOval label and stamped numbers like ones on this instrument are found in objects coming from the Physics Department, Harvard University.