Sound Collection

Diagram of inner ear showing auditory canal, eardrum, semicircular canals, cochlea, cochlea nerve, eustachian tube

Angel with halo and butterfly wings playing harp

Human ear anatomy, artwork
Human ear anatomy, computer artwork

Japanese Triptych Woodblock Cherry Blossom entertainment
A wonderful Triptych Ukiyo-e print for the master Kunisada Utagawa (1786-1864) started his career as the chief pupil of the head of the Utagawa school

Interior of the House of Commons before 1834
The interior of the House of Commons, London, before 1834 when the old Houses of Parliament were destroyed by fire. The current buildings were designed by Charles Barry and Augustus Pugin

November - St Cecilias Day
Vast crowds celebrating St Cecilias Day on 22nd November. St Cecilia is the patron saint of musicians, which accounts for the cacophony taking place during the celebrations - even a dog is joining in

Parents with a howling baby at night
Eighteenth or early nineteenth century parents experiencing the joys of a howling baby in the night. Father paces the floor with the baby in his arms while mother offers advice from the comfort of a

Electric guitar plugged into amp, front view

Cartoon, alarm clock with bells, hands pointing to three o clock

Seattle downtown skyline from alki beach dawn
Seattle Washington Downtown Skyline with Space Needle on Puget Sound from Alki Beach at Dawn

woodwinds musical instruments
Antique illustration of woodwinds musical instruments

Queen bee
Illustration of a Queen bee

Cartoon, violin with bow

Trumpet, side view

Microphone, showing cutaway cross-section

Seattle Skyline from the Alki Beach Seacrest Park
Seattle Washington Downtown Skyline from Seacrest Park Fishing Pier in Alki Beach during Sunrise Dawn

Phonautograph (c. 1860) by Scott and KAonig, published in 1880
Phonautograph (c. 1860) by Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville (French printer and bookseller, 1817 - 1879) and Rudolph Koenig (German acoustician, 1832 - 1901)

Edisons Phonograph from 1879, wood engravings, published in 1880
The Phonograph (Tin Foil Phonograph) by Thomas Alva Edison (American inventor, 1847 - 1931) in 1879 (improved design of the prototype from 1877)

Horses ears, close-up

The human ear engraving 1888
Illustrated Natural History of the Three Kingdoms Illustrierte Naturgeschichte der drei Reiche Franz StrAÔé¼ssles - Wilhelm Nitzschke, Stuttgart 1888

Illustration of sonar system Gloria sending out sound pulses across sea bed, picking up echoes bouncing back from features on the sea bed and communicating them to on-board computers

The human ear engraving 1896
The human ear engraving

Abstract colorful background
Abstract rainbow wave background with bokeh from middle

Human Ear
Antique medical scientific illustration of human ear

Working bee
Illustration of a Working bee

Drone bee
Illustration of a Drone bee

Cross-section of hearing apparatus
Horizontal cross-section through the left temporal bone and the organ of hearing

Phonautograph by Koenig
Antique illustration of a Phonautograph by Koenig

The Island Of Krakatoa
Krakatoa, a volcano located in the Sunda Strait near Rakata, sits partially submerged in the water and still smoking after a great eruption that produced the the loudest sound ever historically

Treble clef and musical notes of a full octave on a stave, and the corresponding keys on an organ

Sound wave created by a percussion instrument, digital illustration

Cartoon, multicoloured metallophone with pair of mallets

Concert hall, cross-section illustrating reflection and absorption of sound

Cross section illustration of woman playing grand piano showing how sound is produced

Illustration of the processes involved in storing sound on a CD

Illustration of radio transmission and reception, from microphone to speaker

Illustration of vacuum experiments, flame being extinguished in a vacuum, sound being muted in a vac

Illustration of air molecules compressed together creating sound waves

Illustration of sound frequencies, fundamental frequency and higher frequencies (harmonics)

Illustration of four different sound waves

Illustration of sound waves produced by siren of a passing police car

Illustration of Robert Boyle conducting experiment, showing that sounds are carried by air

Illustration of William Derhams sound experiment, showing sound travelling from the mouth of a cannon towards tower of Upminster Church, 1708

Illustration of sound recording on cassette tape

Seattle downtown skyline
Seattle Washington downtown skyline from Dr Jose Rizal Bridge at sunset with freeway light trails

Hallstatt in the winter, Austria

Beacon of Fanad Head at the mouth of Milford sound, Co Donegal, Ireland

Beacon of Fanad Head at the mouth of Milford sound, Co Donegal Ireland

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