Pressure-Pain Balance

Pressure-Pain Balance

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Description
Guy Montrose Whipple, an educational psychologist who studied and worked at Cornell, designed this pressure-pain balance. This example was sold by Stoelting in Chicago.
Ref: Guy Montrose Whipple, Manual of Mental and Physical Tests (Baltimore, 1910), p. 231.
C. H. Stoelting Co., Psychological and Physiological Apparatus and Supplies (Chicago, 1930), p. 54.
Location
Currently not on view
Object Name
Apparatus, Testing, Psychological
pressure balance
psychological testing apparatus
Other Terms
Apparatus, Testing, Psychological; Diagnostic Medicine
date made
1900-1940
maker
C. H. Stoelting Company
place made
United States: Illinois, Chicago
Physical Description
wood (overall material)
metal (overall material)
Measurements
overall: 38 cm x 23.4 cm x 76.5 cm; 14 15/16 in x 9 3/16 in x 30 1/8 in
ID Number
MG.300427.179
catalog number
300427.179
accession number
300427
Credit Line
Cornell University Department of Psychology
subject
Science & Scientific Instruments
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Data Source
National Museum of American History
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