Name/Title
SyrenEntry/Object ID
2013.3.78Description
"The syren is an instrument by which a series of air puffs are made to produce a musical sound, and by which the number of puffs made in a second are registered.
"By simple artifice, the air which gives the sound is made to turn the disk. This is done by making the holes through the plate oblique instead of vertical." From Cooley's Natural Philosophy.
In this instrument the slanted holes are in a revolving horizontal disc in the top of the brass cylinder. Apparently it is of the Caquiard-Latour type of about 1820.Collection
Moosnick Museum - Scientific Apparatus