Polygraph
date: label: date made
content: ca 1915
notes: label: Description
content: James MacKenzie (1853-1925), a Scottish cardiologist with a medical practice in England, described an ink polygraph in 1908. The “HAWKSLEY & SON / XXX OXFORD ST. / LONDON” inscription in the lid of the case of this example refers to the manufacturer. The “ARTHUR H. THOMAS CO.” inscription refers to the firm that sold the instrument in the United States.
label: Description
content: Ref: J. MacKenzie, “The Ink Polygraph,” <i>The British Medical Journal</i> 1 (June 13, 1908): 1411.
label: Description
content: Fred E. Inbau, “The First Polygraph,” <i>The Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology, and Police Science</i> 43 (1953): 679-681.
label: Description
content: Ad for the New American Model of the Mackenzie Ink Polygraph, available from Arthur H. Thomas Company, in <i>American Journal of the Medical Sciences</i> (July 1920): 3.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: College of Physicians of Philadelphia. College Collections
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-07433
label: catalog number
content: M-07433
label: accession number
content: 220170
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Polygraph
label: Object Name
content: polygraph
label: Other Terms
content: Polygraph; Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in x 10 in x 6 in; 8.89 cm x 25.4 cm x 15.24 cm