Young Difference-Tone Bars
name: label: used at
content: Carnegie-Mellon University
label: maker
content: C. H. Stoelting Company
notes: label: Description
content: Wooden box containing a mallet and seven wooden tone bars devised by Paul Thomas Young (1892-1978), an experimental psychologist who studied with Edward Titchener at Cornell, and taught at the University of Illinois. An inscription in the lid of the box reads “C. H. STOELTING / CHICAGO, ILL.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Paul Thomas Young, “Series of Difference Tones Obtained from Tunable Bars,” The American Journal of Psychology 33 (1922): 385-393.
label: Description
content: C. H. Stoelting Co., Psychological and Physiological Apparatus and Supplies (Chicago, 1930), pp. 32-33.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.311913.06
label: catalog number
content: 311913.06
label: accession number
content: 311913
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Set, Tonebar
label: Object Name
content: tonebars
label: Other Terms
content: Set, Tonebar; Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7.3 cm x 32.3 cm x 17 cm; 2 7/8 in x 12 11/16 in x 6 11/16 in