Touch Weights
name: label: maker
content: C. H. Stoelting Company
notes: label: Description
content: Touch weights were designed to determine the smallest possible weight that will give rise to a sensation of touch. The form was associated with Edward Wheeler Scripture (1864–1945), an American physician who, having been trained under Wilhelm Wundt, the pioneer experimental psychologist, established an experimental psychology laboratory at Yale University, directed the Vanderbilt Speech Clinic at Columbia University, and helped found the American Psychological Association.
label: Description
content: Ref: E. W. Scripture, Thinking, Feeling, Doing (Meadville, Pa., 1895), Chapter 8, “Touch.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Psychology Department of Skidmore College
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.311423.13
label: catalog number
content: 311423.13
label: accession number
content: 311423
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Apparatus, Movement, Eye
label: Object Name
content: touch weights
label: Other Terms
content: Apparatus, Movement, Eye; Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13.9 cm x 18 cm x 16.8 cm; 5 1/2 in x 7 1/16 in x 6 5/8 in