Galton Whistle Calibration Chart
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content: Cornell University
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 chart read “Galton-Pfeife No. 2092” and “Physikalisch-Mechanisches Institut von Prof. M. Th. Edelmann & Sohn in Munchen”.
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.300427.199
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content: 300427.199
label: serial number
content: 2092
label: accession number
content: 300427
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Chart, Galton Whistle Calibration
label: Object Name
content: chart
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 33 cm x 21 cm; 13 in x 8 1/4 in