Smedley Dynamometer
name: label: used at
content: Skidmore College
label: maker
content: C. H. Stoelting Company
notes: label: Description
content: Fred W. Smedley, Director of the Chicago Child-Study Department in 1899-1901, devised an adjustable stirrup grip dynamometer that small children could use. This example measures up to 100 kg. The inscription reads “C. H. STOELTING CO. / CHICAGO, ILL. USA / MADE IN U.S.A.”
label: Description
content: The C. H. Stoelting Company was formed in Chicago in 1886, and was soon the largest supplier of psychological and physiological test apparatus in the country. It boasted, in 1930, that Smedley’s hand dynamometer was used “in virtually all of the Child Study Departments of the Boards of Education and in fact wherever a test is made of the strength of grip.”
label: Description
content: Ref: C. H. Stoelting Co., Apparatus and Supplies for the Manual of Mental and Physical Tests (Chicago, ca. 1911), pp. 2-3.
label: Description
content: C. H. Stoelting Co., <i>Psychological and Physiological Apparatus and Supplies</i> (Chicago, 1930), pp. 54-55.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
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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.311423.01
label: catalog number
content: 311423.01
label: accession number
content: 311423
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dynamometer, hand
label: Other Terms
content: Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall, as stored: 2 in x 5 7/8 in x 10 3/4 in; 5.08 cm x 14.9225 cm x 27.305 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 26.8 cm x 15 cm x 5.1 cm; 10 9/16 in x 5 7/8 in x 2 in