Quadruple Sound Pendulum
date: label: date made
content: 1890s
name: label: maker
content: Francis
label: maker
content: Francis, Charles Albert
notes: label: Description
content: The first sound pendulum was built by Volkmann in the 1880s. This quadruple sound pendulum was designed by Edward B. Titchener, the influential professor of experimental at Cornell University. It was made by Charles Albert Francis, a machinist from Worcester, Ma., who worked for Clark University in the early 1890s.
label: Description
content: Ref: Edward B. Titchener, “The Equipment of a Psychological Laboratory,” <i>American Journal of Psychology</i> 11 (1899-1900): 251-265, on 255.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
setName: label: See more items in
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.300427.012
label: catalog number
content: 300427.012
label: accession number
content: M-14758
label: accession number
content: 300427
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Apparatus, Fall
label: Object Name
content: sound pendulum
label: Object Name
content: fall apparatus
label: Other Terms
content: Apparatus, Fall; Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 37.5 cm x 14.4 cm x 36.6 cm; 14 3/4 in x 5 11/16 in x 14 7/16 in