Discrimination Weights, Cartridge Type
name: label: used at
content: Skidmore College
label: maker
content: C. H. Stoelting Company
notes: label: Description
content: Stoelting, the Chicago firm that made this set of discrimination weights, associated them with Gilbert and Whipple. Joshua Allen Gilbert (1867-1948) was a graduate of Otterbein University who, while working towards a psychology PhD from Yale University, devised experiments to illustrate the presumed correspondence between intelligence and the ability to discriminate between different weights. Gilbert later became a surgeon, and performed a hysterectomy on Alberta Lucille Hart, the first documented transgender male transition in the United States. He was also famous for attempting to communicate with his dead wife. Guy Montrose Whipple (1876-1941) was an educational psychologist with a PhD from Cornell University.
label: Description
content: Ref: J. A. Gilbert, “Researches on the Mental and Physical Development of School-Children,” Studies from the Yale Psychological Laboratory 2 (1894): 43-45, 59-63.
label: Description
content: “Dr. Joshua A. Gilbert,” New York Times (April 20, 1948), p. 27.
label: Description
content: Guy Montrose Whipple, Manual of Mental and Physical Tests (Baltimore, 1914), pp. 223-230.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Pyschology Department of Skidmore College
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.311423.10
label: catalog number
content: 311423.10
label: accession number
content: 311423
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Weights, Set of
label: Object Name
content: weights
label: Other Terms
content: Weights, Set of; Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8.6 cm x 2.4 cm; 3 3/8 in x 15/16 in