Rudolph Koenig
✓ Source-basedfallingGerman physicist (1832-1901)
ScientistsLived 1832 to 1901 · aged 68
Fame45.3
Momentum5.8
Languages14
In century#17,980
Karl Rudolph Koenig was a German businessman, instrument maker, and physicist, chiefly concerned with acoustic phenomena. He was best known for designing and building acoustical instruments such as the tuning fork and sound analyser.
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Example of tuning fork by John Walker showing note (E) and frequency in hertz (659).
Sound analyser with 8 resonator balls, by Koenig, 1880, Conservatoire national des Arts et Métiers.
Koenig's manometric flame apparatus (1862), used to visualize sound waves. Air pressure from an acoustic phone altered the flame provided by a Bunsen gas flame, which was amplified by a rotating mirror and recordedScientists born in the 1830s 6
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Scientists
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Scientist
Status
deceased
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Lived 1832 to 1901 · aged 68
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