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Cropped photograph of the 1874 ear phonautograph showing the mouthpiece and ear components.

Reconstructing a lost object: can you identify this component in Alexander Graham Bell's 1874 ear phonautograph?

Tom Everrett, PhD

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

The ear phonautograph was a macabre instrument. It was built by Alexander Graham Bell and Clarence J. Blake in 1874, and used a surgically-removed human ear—a skull fragment, ear canal, ear drum, and ossicle bones—to visually “write” sound waves. It worked like this: the surgically-removed ear was first attached to the top bracket of the instrument by a bolt driven through the skull fragment. It was then tightened in place with a thumbscrew. When a user spoke into the mouthpiece, located behind

Stethoscopes displayed in the permanent Medical Sensations exhibition at the Canada Science and Technology Museum.

Health & Wellness

Curating sound culture: Exploring the history of the stethoscope

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Few things say ‘doctor’ more than a stethoscope. Even in the modern medical field, which can be regarded as highly vision-based (imaging, scanning, observing), the stethoscope remains a powerful medical tool and an iconic symbol of past traditions. Above all, the stethoscope represents a deep and enduring relationship between medical practice and sound. During my time as a practicum student for Ingenium, I worked on developing a research profile of the museum’s stethoscope collection, focusing

Autumn vista of a river winding between pine trees and snow-capped mountains.

AI-Generated sound therapy for critically ill patients

Corona Guan Wang

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

At the start of 2022, I joined Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation as a research assistant. Ingenium curators Dr. Tom Everrett (Communications) and Dr. David Pantalony (Physical Sciences and Medicine) invited me to write about a research project that I am currently affiliated with called Autonomous Adaptive Soundscape (AAS). The AAS is an intelligent bio-algorithmic system that selects therapeutic soundscapes to relax ICU patients, via application of machine learning and

A woman is silhouetted in front of a circular, glowing showcase presenting the Koenig Sound Analyser. The title, “Seeing Sound” is visible on the wall.

Mind the gap: The positive impact of multi-sensory experiences

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

As a blind/low vision child, two things seemed just out of reach for Samantha Moore: history and art.

In the foreground, a cell phone displays the splash screen of the Sound by Design podcast. Behind the cellphone is a blurred image of the Sound by Design exhibition.

Museum podcasts: An ideal virtual format for blind and low vision visitors

How do you create a virtual web-based museum exhibition for visitors with vision impairments? Read about the recommendations and inclusive solutions Carla Ayukawa, a curatorial studies student, learned through her consultations with the visitor group.

A desk with monochromatic white and silver objects on it, including an open laptop, a cellphone, a coffee cup, and several books. There is a plant in the background, and a white wall behind the desk.

Music meets public history and digital humanities in Garth Wilson Fellowship

As the 2020-2021 Garth Wilson Fellow, Victoria Hawco provided design input on an international database of acoustical objects with Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation.

Over-the-shoulder shot of curator and conservator peering under the hood of the Electronic Sackbut synthesizer. Internal wiring and circuitry behind keyboard is exposed.

Uncovering the secrets of the world’s first synthesizer

Tom Everrett, PhD

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Canadian Hugh Le Caine invented the 1948 Electronic Sackbut — the world's earliest known electronic synthesizer. Now a team at Ingenium is bringing this revolutionary instrument back to life.

A young woman sits on her luggage in an empty airport terminal, gazing off into the distance to the left of screen. She is alone and wearing a blue medical mask, with headphones draped around her neck.

Remembering the sounds of COVID-19

Tom Everrett, PhD

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

What does the COVID-19 pandemic sound like? Ingenium's communications curator offers up a look at the pandemic from the perspective of sound.

Cristina Wood and Tom Everrett examine records of tailwater elevations from the Domtar/E.B. Eddy/J.R. Booth Collection, which provided some of the historical data sets used in the “Songs of the Ottawa” project.

Social Science & Culture

Songs of the Ottawa: Using sound to interpret historical data

Tom Everrett, PhD

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Data visualization techniques are commonly used by researchers to interpret and share data. If you’ve ever encountered a bar graph, pie chart, or infographic, then you’ve already observed one of the many ways that researchers use visual imagery to render complex data sets more approachable and easier to understand. But what if instead of visuals, researchers instead used sounds to communicate information about their research data? This is one of the guiding questions that motivated Carleton

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