Original image description from the Deutsche Fotothek
Akustik & Schall & Sprachrohr & Ordensliteratur
Description
English: Engraving showing a man (A, left) using a megaphone(B) to amplify his voice to communicate over distance to another man (C). German Jesuit scientist Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) is one of several people credited with developing the acoustic megaphone.
Relation to the administrator of the reproduced object / repeatable field group
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Verwalter
Location of administrator
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Dresden
Name of adminstrator
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Sächsische Landesbibliothek -
Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden
Inventory no.
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MB.4.81
Folio-no. / page / location
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90
Relation to the artist / repeatable field group
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Herstellung
Name of the artist
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Schultes, Friedrich
Function of the artist
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Drucker
Relation to the studio / repeatable field group
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Herstellung
Name of the studio
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Heil
Function of the studio
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Verleger
Relation to an(other) object/ repeatable field group
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aus:
Artist / manufacturer of the (other) object
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Kircher, Athanasius & Nislen, Tobias
Kind of the (other) object
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Buch
Title of the (other) object
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Neue Hall- und Thon-Kunst, Oder Mechanische
Gehaim-Verbindung der Kunst und Natur, durch Stimme und
Hall-Wissenschafft gestifftet
Location within the (other) object
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ATHANASII KIRCHERI è Soc: Jesu Laut- oder Thon-Kunst Erstes
Buch. Thon-Kunst oder Wissenschaft/ den Echo oder Wider-
und Gegen-Hall belangend. Sibende Abtheilung. Sectio VII.
Von verfertig- und zurüstung verschidener Instrumenten
wormit der Thon oder Hall in die Weite kan gebracht und
fort-geführet werden. Caput II. Die Sprach-Rohr also
anzuordnen / daß man ohne ein anders dergleichen Rohr / nur
mit der blossen Stimm allein/ auf die Fragen antworten
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