Inductorium, Du-Bois Reymond Type
name: label: used at
content: Cornell University
notes: label: Description
content: The inductorium, or induction-coil stimulator, introduced in the late 1830s, provided a means for obtaining repetitive stimuli, thus allowing the discovery of new properties of excitable tissues. This form, devised by the French physicist, Emil Du Bois-Raymond (1818-1896), has a wooden base and two coils, one fixed coil and one movable. An inscription reads “E. R. Macmillan.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.323602.04
label: catalog number
content: 323602.04
label: accession number
content: 323602
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Inductorium
label: Other Terms
content: Inductorium; Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 11.5 cm x 34.4 cm x 8.8 cm; 4 1/2 in x 13 9/16 in x 3 7/16 in