Ergograph
name: label: used at
content: Cornell University
label: maker
content: Zimmermann, Emil
notes: label: Description
content: 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.
label: Description
content: Ref: E. Zimmermann, Preis- Liste über psychologische und physiologische Apparate (Leipzig, 1903), p. 112.
label: Description
content: E. Zimmermann, Liste 37 Ergographen (Leipzig and Berlin, 1921).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Saxony, Leipzig
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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.300427.181
label: catalog number
content: 300427.181
label: accession number
content: 300427
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Ergograph
label: Other Terms
content: Ergograph; Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: leather (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: 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