National Museum of American History
Phonelescope
Unknown artist
This instrument, which allows one to see the wave forms of sound or electricity, was devised by Herbert Grove Dorsey (1876-1961), an American physicist and engineer. The inscription, in raised letters on the base, reads “PHONELESCOPE.”
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