Galton Whistle
date: label: date made
content: around 1900
name: label: maker
content: Edelmann, H.
label: maker
content: Edelmann, Max Thomas
notes: label: Description
content: In 1876, an English scientist named Francis Galton introduced a whistle for testing the upper limits of audible sound in different persons. Max Thomas Edelmann, a physicist and instrument maker in Munich, improved the form in 1900. The inscriptions on this example read “EDELMANN / MUNICH” and “2092”.
label: Description
content: Max Thomas Edelmann (1845-1913) began in business in 1870. The firm became Prof. Dr. M. Th. Edelmann & Sohn in 1899. Max Edelmann (1874-1940) became director of the firm in 1913.
label: Description
content: Ref: “The Galton Whistle,” <i>Science</i> 12 (1900): 613.
label: Description
content: Physikalisch-mechanischen Institut von Prof. Dr. M. Th. Edelmann & Sohn, <i>Die Edelmannschen Grenzpfeifen (Galtonpfeifen) von D. M. Edelmann</i> (Munich, 1921).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Bavaria, Munich
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
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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.300427.198
label: catalog number
content: 300427.198
label: serial number
content: 2092
label: accession number
content: 300427
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Whistle
label: Other Terms
content: Whistle; Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 14.5 cm x 4.5 cm x 28 cm; 5 11/16 in x 1 3/4 in x 11 in