Sound and Science

Audio Preservationist Carl Haber, 2013 MacArthur Fellow | MacArthur Foundation

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Subject File from the Archives of the Languages of the World,  [...]

President’s Office Record from Indiana University, ca. 1954. “Archives of the Languages of the World, circa 1954” file, Indiana University President’s Office records, Collection C213.30, Indiana University  [...]

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Voiceprint identification (manual)

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Whispered vowels: Experimental cylinder from the Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv

Recorded sounds for phonographic experiments. This is one of five recordings made in 1916 for an experiment that explored changes in sound quality with different recording and  [...]

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Das psychologische Institut

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Brevet d’Invention (1857)/ Certificat d’Addition (1859)

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Über die Grenzen der Tonwahrnehmung

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Die systematische Ausbildung des musikalischen Gehörs

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Neue Beiträge zu einer Lehre von den Tonvorstellungen

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Geschichte der Ohrenheilkunde, Vol. 2

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Geschichte der Ohrenheilkunde, Vol. 1

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Tuning Fork Set

Description This set of tuning forks located in the Physics Department of the University of Alberta. They are described in the university legers as “Beat Boxes.” The Parisian  [...]

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Cherry Bowl Resonance

Description This is a variation of Savart’s  resonance bell where the bell is sounded and the resonator is moved back and forth to resonate with specific frequencies.  [...]

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Opelt’s Siren Disk

Description The earliest siren is attributed to Charles Cagniard de la Tour in 1819 (See the entry for Cagniard de la Tour Siren) Polyphonic sirens, with concentric  [...]

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Cagniard de la Tour- type Siren

Description This type of siren was invented by Charles Cagniard, originally developed to measure the number of vibrations of a body in a given time. Cagniard’s siren  [...]

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Sonometer

Description The Sonometer is a musical and scientific instrument with ancient roots, commonly employed in demonstrations of acoustics to show the effect of length, tension, diameter, and  [...]

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Casavant organ demonstrator

Description This is a demonstration pipe organ made by a well-known Quebec company, Casavant Frères. It was most likely obtained by the Physics department around 1925, when  [...]

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Chain of pure major 3rds & Quarter-tone between D♯ and E♭

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Untersuchungen über die sogenannten ‘Knochenleitungen’ und deren Verhältnis zur Schallfortpflanzung durch  [...]

See also: https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_ShsBAAAAYAAJ/page/n311/mode/2up  [...]

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Demonstration der continuierlichen Tonreihe in ihrer neuen von Dr. Edelmann verbesserten  [...]

See also: https://archive.org/details/zeitschriftfrhr32unkngoog/page/n90/mode/2up  [...]

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Herrmann Scherchen (Gravesano): Anwendung elektroakustischer Musik für den Film von Oskar  [...]

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Herrmann Scherchen (Gravesano): Anwendung elektroakustischer Musik für den Film von Oskar  [...]

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Organisation der Lautabteilung an der Preussischen Staatsbibliothek Berlin

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Die Akustik

Die Akustik was written by Ernst Chladni in 1801, and is the first comprehensive work on acoustics to appear in German. The first part dealt with  [...]

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Über die Bedeutung des Phonographen für vergleichende Musikwissenschaft

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Über vergleichende akustische und musikpsychologische Untersuchungen

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Stumpf Papers: [Stumpf, Carl] [Folder] Hauptversuche mit von Hornbostel und Wertheimer  [...]

Externer Link: http://vlp.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/library/data/lit38891  [...]

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Wilhelm Wundt

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Personal information forms from the Lautarchiv collection

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Media Archaeological Fundus

The Media Archaeological Fundus (Medienarchäologischer Fundus, or MAF) is a collection of teaching and working materials held at the media theory department of the Humboldt-Universität zu  [...]

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MIT Choral Society concert poster, Freie Universität Berlin, 1962

This poster advertises an MIT Choral Society concert that took place at the Freie Universität Berlin on July 3, 1962. The poster forms part of a  [...]

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Handmade paper waterfall plot: Mississippi

This photograph shows a three-dimensional representation of sound using paper. The spectrum (frequencies from low to high) is represented by an arrangement of single strips of  [...]

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Handmade paper waterfall plot: Beethoven’s 8th symphony

This photograph shows a three-dimensional representation of sound using paper. The spectrum (frequencies from low to high) is represented by an arrangement of single strips of  [...]

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Brüel & Kjær 2304 level recorder

These pictures show the measuring device Type 2304 produced by the Danish company Brüel & Kjær. Level recorders like this one made it possible to create  [...]

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Random Noise Generator Type 1390-B

This picture shows the Random Noise Generator Type 1390-B produced by the General Radio Company in West Concord, MA. A random noise generator is a device  [...]

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Historical Devices Owned by the Audio Communication Group, Technische Universität Berlin

The holdings of the Audio Communication Group of the Technische Universität Berlin (TU) go back to the 1950s and 1960s. This is a considerable length of  [...]

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Professor Gruetzmacher (Braunschweig): Das Teilspektrum der Glocke – Side B

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Professor Gruetzmacher (Braunschweig): Das Teilspektrum der Glocke – Side A

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Fahrbares Untergestell für Temporegler

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Wirbelstrom-Drehmomentmesser für kleine Drehmomente

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Beitrag zur Übertragung oder Aufzeichnung eines breiten Nachrichtenbandes

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Gedruckte Schaltungen für Neuartige Fernhörer und zur Steuerung von Erdsatelliten

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Lässt sich das Restgehör für tiefe Frequenzen dazu verwenden, dass durch  [...]

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Über Aufbau und Zweck des Informationswandlers

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Zeitraffung und –dehnung bei der Tonbandwiedergabe

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Ein Verfahren zur Sprachbandkompression

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Zeitlupe für Sprache und Musik

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Notes about the transmission of news – Side B

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Notes about the transmission of news – Side A

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Explanation of the electrical information storage – Side B

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Explanation of the electrical information storage – Side A

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Demonstrations of the „Tonlagenwandler“ – Side B

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Demonstrations of the „Tonlagenwandler“ – Side A

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Gravesano, Mai 1956

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Hermann Scherchen (Gravesano): Der Einfluß des Mikrophons auf die tönende Botschaft  [...]

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Hermann Scherchen (Gravesano): Der Einfluß des Mikrophons auf die tönende Botschaft  [...]

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Hermann Scherchen (Gravesano): Nachhallexperimente des holländischen Staatsradios – Side B

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Hermann Scherchen (Gravesano): Nachhallexperimente des holländischen Staatsradios – Side A

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Herrmann Scherchen (Gravesano): Anwendung elektronischer Musik für den Film von Oskar  [...]

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Herrmann Scherchen (Gravesano): Anwendung elektronischer Musik für den Film von Oskar  [...]

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Koenig Acoustical Collection

The University of Toronto acoustics collection consists of a comprehensive series of instruments made in the Parisian workshop of Rudolph Koenig (1832–1901). Koenig was both an innovative instrument  [...]

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Results Paul E. Sabine, Riverbank Laboratories, Geneva, III, 15.07.1927

Explanatory Note and Acknowledgments: The archival documents concerning the history of the Geluidstichting (Sound Foundation) and Nederlands Akoestisch Genootschap (Dutch Society for Acoustics) in the “Sound &  [...]

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Max Osswald Photographs

Gathered by historian of architecture Sabine von Fischer, this set consists of sound photographs taken by Franz Max Osswald, the founder of the first laboratory for the  [...]

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Photographic study of sound propagation within convex and concave

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Contact sheet of photographic sound studies

ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Image archive / foto: Osswald, Franz Max / Ans_10391-011  [...]

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Photographic study of sound propagation in a cupola space

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Photographic study of sound propagation for an auditorium of variable size  [...]

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Acoustics laboratory, E.T.H. Zürich: Oscillation chart of the adjacent reverberation room

ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Image archive, Inventory-number: Ans_10391-100  [...]

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Acoustics laboratory, E.T.H. Zürich

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Photographic study of sound propagation in Semper’s Stadthaus Winterthur auditorium

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Photographic study of sound propagation for rooms with wood coffering

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Bericht über mein Wirken und Schaffen in der Preussischen Phonographischen Kommission

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Doegen collection at Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin

The Doegen collection at the Deutsches Historisches Museum (German Historical Museum) in Berlin comprises manuscripts, photographs, handwritten notes, brochures, and official documents from the estate of,  [...]

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Bericht von Geheimrat Stumpf an die Preußische Phonographische Kommission, Part 2

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Photographic study of sound propagation for an elliptic space with coffering  [...]

Inventory number: Ans_10391-066

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Photographic study of sound propagation with explanatory line drawings

Inventory number: Ans_10391-050

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Photographic study of sound propagation in the Ear of Dionysius

Inventory number: Ans_10391-091

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Franz Max Osswald

Franz Max Osswald, born in Winterthur, graduated as a mechanical engineer in 1905 at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (E.T.H.). In 1924, he installed a  [...]

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Postcard of the Berlin City Palace

Carl Stumpf’s Institute for Psychology in the Berlin City Palace on a postcard from 1920.

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Lissajous’s figures, Wheatstone apparatus for compounding two orthogonal oscillations

This video demonstrates the principle of Chladni figures and vibrating plates. Brass plates of different shapes are fixed centrally at the top of wooden columns. Sand is  [...]

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Vibrations of plates, Chladni’s figures

This video demonstrates the principle of Chladni figures and vibrating plates. Brass plates of different shapes are fixed centrally at the top of wooden columns. Sand is  [...]

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Sounds, vibrations, and Marloye’s harp

This video demonstrates the principle of a Marloye’s harp. The masses of four pendulums are backed to the inside of a glass vessel. When an arch rubs  [...]

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Demonstration of a disk siren

This video demonstrates the principle of a disk siren. The device consists of a rotating machine accompanied by a series of cardboard perforated discs and bearing indications  [...]

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Recording the vibrations of tuning forks

This video demonstrates the principle of recording the vibrations of tuning forks. A small glass sheet is covered in a layer of black carbon, using the fumes  [...]

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Manometric capsule, resonance, Koenig sound analyzer

This video demonstrates the principle of the manometric capsule and the Koenig analyzer, which can be used to study sound. The capsule is made of two small  [...]

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Gutzmann, short writings I

All the essays are offprints, collated into chronologically arranged bundles by Hermann Gutzmann himself. The list below is a transcription of Gutzmann’s handwritten “table of contents.” The  [...]

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The Bell System Technical Journal (1922-1983)

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Rotfuchs-Protokoll + Korsaks (ab 18.4.64), 23.09.1963 – 24.04.1967

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Polarfüchse-Protokoll kleine Freianlage, 08.11.1956-01.04.1960

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Rotfuchs-Protokoll große + kleine Freianlage, 04.03.1959 – 21.09.1963 + Polarfuchs, 21.04.1960-05.09.1961

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Rotfuchs-Protokoll große Freianlage (+ kleine Freianlage), 12.07.1957 – 03.03.1959

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XIV. Fuchs-Protokoll, große Freianlage, 28.07.1956 – 11.07.1957

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XIII. Fuchs-Protokoll, 21.01.1956 – 27.07.1956

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XII. Fuchs-Protokoll Freianlage, 28.02.55 – 20.01.1956

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XI. Füchse Tagesprotokolle, 06.05.1955 – 17.08.1955

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X. Fuchs-Protokoll, 23.12.54 – 05.05.1955

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IX. Fuchs-Protokoll, 13.05.1954 – 22.12.1954

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VIII. Fuchs-Protokoll, 18.12.1953 – 12.05.1954

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VII. Fuchs-Protokoll, 31.08.1953 – 17.12.1953

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VI. Fuchs-Protokoll, 22.06.53 – 30.08.1953

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V. Fuchs-Protokoll (II), 11.03.53 – 22.06.1953

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IV: Fuchs-Protokoll, 01.01.1953 – 10.03.1953

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The Bell System Technical Journal

The Bell System Technical Journal was a periodical intended for sharing the scientific and engineering developments of the Bell System. It was published between 1922 and 1983. Collecting  [...]

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Bell Telephone News

Bell Telephone News was the regional telephone magazine published by The Bell Telephone Company of Chicago.

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Ear Phonautograph (Reconstruction)

This instrument is a reconstruction of Alexander Graham Bell and Clarence J. Blake’s ear phonautograph: an 1874 curiosity that used an excised human middle ear to  [...]

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Peter Paul Kellogg

Peter Paul Kellogg was professor of ornithology and biological acoustics at Cornell University. Together with Arthur Allen and Albert Brand, he developed new techniques and instruments  [...]

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