Kymograph
date: label: date made
content: 1906
name: label: maker
content: Zimmermann, Emil
notes: label: Description
content: Historians of science and medicine understand that “By the turn of the twentieth century, kymographic recording apparatus had become the central tool of physiological analysis and the symbol of a new style of pedagogy especially in American medical schools.” Much of this apparatus was made by Emil Zimmermann, an instrument maker who opened a shop in Leipzig in 1887 after having worked for Wilhelm Wundt, the professor of experimental psychology at the University of Leipzig.
label: Description
content: This Zimmermann kymograph came from the Department of Physiology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. It probably dates from 1906. And it was probably used by John C. Hemmeter (1863-1931), M.D., Ph.D., LL.D., the Professor of Physiology and Clinical Medicine.
label: Description
content: Ref: Merilly Borrell in “Instrumentation and the Rise of Modern Physiology,” in Science & Technology Studies 5 (1987): 53-52.
label: Description
content: Emil Zimmermann, Preis-Liste über psychologische und physiologische Apparate (Leipzig, 1903).
label: Description
content: John C. Hemmeter, Manual of Practical Physiology (Philadelphia, 1912).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Saxony, Leipzig
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: University of Maryland, School of Medicine, Department of Physiology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-09656
label: catalog number
content: M-09656
label: accession number
content: 233572
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Kymograph
label: Other Terms
content: Kymograph; Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 26 in x 10 3/4 in x 16 in; 66.04 cm x 27.305 cm x 40.64 cm