Contrast Apparatus
notes: label: Description
content: Contrast Apparatus devised by Karl Ewald Konstantin Hering (1834–1918), a German physiologist who investigated color vision, binocular perception and eye movements, and who proposed opponent color theory in 1892.
label: Description
content: Ref: William Sterling, Outlines of Practical Physiology (Philadelphia, 1895), p. 357.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Cornell University Department of Psychology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.300427.166
label: catalog number
content: 300427.166
label: accession number
content: 300427
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Apparatus, Contrast
label: Object Name
content: contrast apparatus
label: Other Terms
content: Apparatus, Contrast; Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cloth (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 62.2 cm x 46.4 cm x 25.7 cm; 24 1/2 in x 18 1/4 in x 10 1/8 in