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Tonometer – Bezold’s Continuous Series of Tuning Forks

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Post Date: August 29, 2023

Last Modified: August 29, 2023

Tonometer – Bezold’s Continuous Series of Tuning Forks

Maker:

Max Thomas Edelmann

Period of Production:

1900 – 1910

Current Place:

Historic Acoustic-Phonetic Collection, Technical University Dresden

The otologist Friedrich Bezold designed this series of tuning forks for testing hearing through a continuous series of sounds. The acoustical maker and physicist Max Thomas Edelmann’s firm made these precision series of forks that were sold around the world for speech and hearing research and clinical practice.

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