Galton Whistles (2)
name: 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. One of Galton's discoveries was the loss of hearing in high frequencies as persons aged. The whistle was often used in later psychological experiments where the subject was asked to indicate the discernment of tones. The whistle's inability to emit a tone of constant pitch was it's main deficit, leading many researchers away from its use, especially as electronic equipment became available.
label: Description
content: This box holds two Galton whistles. One is Ser. No. 429. The other is Ser. No. 1199. The “EDELMANN / MUNICH” inscription on each refers to Max Thomas Edelmann, an instrument maker in Munich who improved the form in 1900.
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: Description
content: Galton, Francis, "Inquries into Human Faculty and Its Development: Whistles for Audibility of Shrill Notes (1883), in Dennis, W. <i>Readings in the History of Psychology<i>, Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1948: 277
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Bavaria, Munich
label: associated place
content: United States: Georgia, Athens
label: associated place
content: United States: Georgia, Athens
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: University of Georgia
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.326307
label: catalog number
content: 326307
label: accession number
content: 258980
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Micrometers
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
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