Ergograph
Ergograph
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- Description
- An ergograph measures muscle contractions. This example was devised by Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm Meumann (1862–1915), a German educator, pedagogist and psychologist. The “E. ZIMMERMANN / LEIPZIG” inscription refers to Emil Zimmermann, a mechanic who opened his own shop in 1887 after having worked for Wilhelm Wundt, the professor of experimental psychology at the University of Leipzig.
- Ref: E. Zimmermann, Preis- Liste über psychologische und physiologische Apparate (Leipzig, 1903), p. 112.
- E. Zimmermann, Liste 37 Ergographen (Leipzig and Berlin, 1921).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Ergograph
- Other Terms
- Ergograph; Diagnostic Medicine
- used at
- Cornell University
- maker
- Zimmermann, Emil
- place made
- Germany: Saxony, Leipzig
- Physical Description
- wood (overall material)
- leather (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 28.5 cm x 19.6 cm x 54 cm; 11 1/4 in x 7 11/16 in x 21 1/4 in
- ID Number
- MG.300427.181
- catalog number
- 300427.181
- accession number
- 300427
- Credit Line
- Cornell University Department of Psychology
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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