Algometer
name: label: used at
content: Cornell University
label: maker
content: Chicago Laboratory Supply and Scale Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Algometers were designed to identify the pressure and/or force eliciting a pressure-pain threshold. Two forms were introduced in the 1890s. One was associated with Arthur MacDonald (1856-1936), a scientist affiliated with the U.S. Bureau of Education. The other was associated with James McKeen Cattell (1860-1944), a professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. The inscription on this example is that of the Chicago Laboratory & Supply Co., a firm founded by Christian Hans Stoelting in 1886.
label: Description
content: Ref: Sheperd Ivory Franz, Handbook of Mental Examination Methods (New York, 1912), p. 30.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.323602.01
label: accession number
content: 323602
label: catalog number
content: 323602.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Algometer
label: Other Terms
content: Algometer; Psychological Apparatus
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, aluminum (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 1.6 cm x 28.5 cm x 2 cm; 5/8 in x 11 1/4 in x 13/16 in