Algometer
Algometer
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- Description
- Algometers were designed to identify the pressure and/or force eliciting a pressure-pain threshold. Two forms were introduced in the 1890s. One was associated with Arthur MacDonald (1856-1936), a scientist affiliated with the U.S. Bureau of Education. The other was associated with James McKeen Cattell (1860-1944), a professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. The inscription on this example is that of the Chicago Laboratory & Supply Co., a firm founded by Christian Hans Stoelting in 1886.
- Ref: Sheperd Ivory Franz, Handbook of Mental Examination Methods (New York, 1912), p. 30.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Algometer
- Other Terms
- Algometer; Psychological Apparatus
- used at
- Cornell University
- maker
- Chicago Laboratory Supply and Scale Co.
- place made
- United States: Illinois, Chicago
- Physical Description
- metal, steel (overall material)
- metal, aluminum (overall material)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 1.6 cm x 28.5 cm x 2 cm; 5/8 in x 11 1/4 in x 13/16 in
- ID Number
- MG.323602.01
- accession number
- 323602
- catalog number
- 323602.01
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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