Introduction
Workshops in the history of science
Showroom: The business of instrument making
Laboratory: Instrument making and experimentation
Life as an instrument maker
Sound in history
Chapter 1 - Training
Journey to Paris
Vuillaume's violin workshop - 1851-1858
From violins to tuning forks
The scientific instrument trade in Paris
Chapter 2 - Hermann von Helmholtz and the Sensations of Tone
Hermann von Helmholtz
Physical acoustics - theory and instruments (tuning forks, tonometer, double siren)
Instruments as agents of change
Experimental results
Physiological acoustics - the piano as a model for the inner ear
Psychological acoustics - resonators as aids for hearing simple tones
The first sound synthesizer
A theory of harmony and music
Chapter 3 - Transformations in the workshop
Inside Parisian workshops
The phonautograph and the origins of graphical acoustics
Precision and graphical acoustics
The "Plaque tournante"at Rue Hautefeuille: Transforming Helmholtz's acoustics Demonstrating Helmholtz: Adam Politzer and Koenig at the Académie des Sciences Manometric flame capsule and optical acoustics
Chapter 4 - The market and its influences
The first year of business - from the workshop to the classroom
1862 London Exhibition
Selling Helmholtz's instruments
Function replaces beauty: 1867 Exposition in Paris.
Americans at the Fair. William B. Rogers, Alexander Graham Bell and MIT
The Parisian science monopoly and a Portuguese customer
Chapter 5 - Constructing a reputation, 1866-1879
Measuring the velocity of sound in the sewers of Paris
Creating vowel sounds out of wood, brass and steel
Seeing a voice: manometric vowel studies
Extending the tonometer one file mark at a time
Choosing the right steel
Bringing the workshop into combination-tone studies
Precision and livelihood under attack: the Koenig clock fork
Chapter 6 - Expanding the North American Market, 1871-1882.
Recovery from the turmoil of 1870-71
Third catalogue, 1873
Joseph Henry and the Smithsonian Institution
Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, 1876
James Loudon and the University of Toronto
"Cette ville de malheur"
Public lectures at Toronto
Chapter 7 - The Faraday of sound
Life at Quai d'Anjou: 1882-1901
The combination-tone controversy in England
Workshop as theatre
Heidelberg 1889: the German response
The dispute over timbre
Wave sirens
Back to vibrations
Ultrasonics and le domaine de la fantaisie
Conclusion - Beyond Sensations
Appendix 1. Key dates in Rudolph Koenig's life.
Catalogue Raisonné
I. The principal means for producing sound
II. Cause and nature of sound
III. Pitch of sounds
IV. Timbre of sound
V. Propagation of sound
VI. Simple vibrations of the different bodies
VII. Communications of vibrations - Vibrations of simple bodies - Compound vibrations in simple bodies
VIII. Phenomena due to the coexistance of two or more sounds in air
IX. Methods for studying sonorous vibrations without assistance of the ear
X. Apparatus for the mechanical representation of vibrations and wave movements
XI. Acoustic apparatus for practical use
Notes
References
