Teaching Machine Stencil Template, Ray Multitester
date: label: date made
content: 1935
name: label: maker
content: Ray, Joseph J.
notes: label: Description
content: For his teaching machine (known to him as the multitester), Joseph Ray used long strips of cardboard with twenty pairs of words or pairs of images on one side. Occasionally there also were pairs of words or pairs of images on the other side. Ray called these tapes (see 1985.0815.02 through 1985.0815.06 for examples and 1985.0815.07 for a pattern). To mark these tapes, he used this "multitester stencil". It has a dark wooden base. Thumbtacked to the top of the base is a rectangular piece of cardboard with twenty rectangular holes, numbered from 1 at the bottom to 20 at the top. These numbers are labeled: Problem Number on Drum. A mark on the bottom of the stencil reads: Directions: Raise this end of the stencil, place blank (/) 2in. tape flush against opposite end marked "End Here" (/) Replace stencil over tape, center tape at this end. (/) Then fasten with thumb tack. Cut off at upper (/) edge of bottom slot. Another mark on the object reads9-10-35, hence the date assigned to the object.
label: Description
content: For the Ray teaching machine, see accession 1979.0853. For related materials see 1981.0248.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Psychology
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Teaching Machines
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mrs. Joseph J. Ray (through Daniel D. Ray)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0815.01
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0815.01
label: accession number
content: 1985.0815
objectType: label: Object Name
content: template multitester stencil
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (base material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (stencil material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 49.5 cm x 10.8 cm x 1 cm; 19 1/2 in x 4 1/4 in x 13/32 in