Boley Gauge
name: label: used at
content: Cornell University
label: maker
content: Zimmermann, Emil
notes: label: Description
content: G. Boley was a German tool maker with a shop in Wurtemburg in the second half of the nineteenth century. Dentists found that the Boley gauge, apparently designed for watchmakers, was useful for measuring the dimensions of teeth and the spaces between them. An inscription on this example reads “E. ZIMMERMAN, LEIPZIG.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Saxony, Leipzig
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.300427.031
label: catalog number
content: 300427.031
label: accession number
content: 300427
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Aesthesiometer, Thermal
label: Object Name
content: thermal aesthesiometer
label: Object Name
content: boley gauge
label: Other Terms
content: Aesthesiometer, Thermal; Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 cm x 14.9 cm x 5.7 cm; 2 3/8 in x 5 7/8 in x 2 1/4 in