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Something in the Air: Dr Carter Moffat's Ammoniaphone and the Victorian Science of Singing
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In January 1885, the Glaswegian Professor of Chemistry Dr Robert Carter Moffat organised a special operatic concert at St James’s Hall, London, to which he invited around two thousand scientists and musicians. The point of this invitation concert was that all the singers used bottled air. Moffat himself appeared between the various performances, wielding his mysterious Ammoniaphone, or bottled-air machine, a long silver tube which he flourished in the faces of his audience while describing...
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- Published
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- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Science Musuem Group Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Science Museum Group Journal Journal website
- Volume:
- 7
- Issue:
- Spring 2017
- Pages:
- 1-17
- Publication date:
- 2017-07-03
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-01-18
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2054-5770
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- Deposit date:
- 2017-10-09
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- Dickson, 2017
- Copyright date:
- 2017
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- This is an open access article published under a Creative Commons licence, see: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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