Box of accessories for Corder's Harmonograph

Box labelled "Corder 1950-181 Harmonograph (spares)" filled with accessories for Corder's Harmonograph. Including: 37 brass gearwheels, drawings, a notebook, ruler, pens and brass components for chronograph.

Corder was Professor of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music from the 1880s. He also devised a harmonograph, an instrument which produces patterns by combining the motion of two pendulums. Corder’s harmonograph had extra facilities: the drawing table could rotate and move in a straight line. Corder ordered his drawings carefully, starting with the simple Lissajous figures. He used musical terms such as augmentation and diminution to describe the variations he could produce.

Details

Category:
Mathematics
Object Number:
1950-181 Pt5
type:
drawing machines and harmonograph
credit:
Mrs. E.C. Corder.