Article ID: CBB913576480

Sounding Acoustic Precision: Tuning Forks and Cast Steel’s Nineteenth-Century Euro-American Networks (2023)

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A great variety of tuning forks survive in collections around the world, from departments of physics, phonetics, and psychology to medical settings, conservatories, and museum collections. Their ubiquity speaks to their iconic status, while their diversity points to the multifaceted cultures of materiality that shaped and formed around these objects. This essay traces the complex supply chains of nineteenth-century tuning forks, from the gathering and processing of iron ore and crucible steel, to their sites of manufacture, to their various uses. By probing further into these nodes of supply and use, the essay uncovers a chain of values and contingencies that reveal the interdependencies between extracting, commercial, scientific, and artistic practices of the past.

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Article Viktoria Tkaczyk; Christine von Oertzen (2023) Introduction: Reconsidering the Resources of Epistemic Tools. Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 359-365). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Tkaczyk, Viktoria
Achermann, Silke
Bailey, Michael R.
Bernstein, Leslie R.
Dolan, Emily I.
Dupré, Sven
Journals
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Bulletin for the History of Chemistry
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Publishers
MIT Press
Brill
History Press
Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
University of Chicago Press
Concepts
Material culture
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Science and technology, relationships
Supply networks; logistics; supply chain economics
Acoustics
Museums
People
Einstein, Albert
Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von
Rayleigh, John William Strutt, 3rd Baron
Reichenbach, Georg von
Trahiotis, Constantine
Zach, Franz Xaver von
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
17th century
18th century
21st century
Places
Europe
United States
Germany
France
Great Britain
Italy
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