Something in the Air: Dr Carter Moffat’s Ammoniaphone and the Victorian Science of Singing
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 him...
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Science Museum, London
2017-04-01
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| Series: | Science Museum Group Journal |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.sciencemuseum.org.uk/browse/issue-07/something-in-the-air/ |