Color Mixer
date: label: date made
content: 1890s
name: label: used at
content: Cornell University
label: maker
content: Zimmermann, Emil
notes: label: Description
content: Motorized instrument for color perception experiments made by Zimmermann in Leipzig. Karl Marbe (1869-1953), professor of philosophy at the University of Würzburg, described the form in 1894. It may be covered by Reichs-Patent 78693.
label: Description
content: Ref: E. Zimmermann, <i>Neuer Rotations-Apparate nach Dr. Marbe</i> (Leipzig, 1895).
label: Description
content: E. Zimmermann, <i>Psychologische und Physiologische Apparate</i> (Leipzig, 1912), p. 14.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Saxony, Leipzig
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
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.300427.190
label: catalog number
content: 300427.190
label: accession number
content: 300427
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Mixer, Color
label: Object Name
content: color mixer
label: Other Terms
content: Mixer, Color; Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 31 cm x 24.7 cm x 54.8 cm; 12 3/16 in x 9 3/4 in x 21 9/16 in