Inductorium
name: label: used at
content: Cornell University
label: maker
content: Zimmermann, Emil
notes: label: Description
content: The inductorium devised by the German physiologist Emil Du Bois-Raymond (1818-1896) is an induction coil that produces variable intensity electrical energy. Inscriptions on this example read “E. ZIMMERMANN / LEIPZIG / BERLIN” and “IMPORTED BY / ARTHUR H. THOMAS CO. / PHILADELPHIA.”
label: Description
content: Ref: E. Zimmermann, Psychologische und Physiologische Apparate (1912), pp. 133-134.
label: Description
content: E. Zimmerman, Wissenschaftliche Apparate (1928), pp. 172-173.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Saxony, Leipzig
setName: label: See more items in
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.300427.193
label: catalog number
content: 300427.193
label: collector/donor number
content: LI9
label: accession number
content: 300427
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Inductorium
label: Other Terms
content: Inductorium; Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10.2 cm x 10 cm x 50 cm; 4 in x 3 15/16 in x 19 11/16 in