Kymograph
name: label: maker
content: Zimmermann, Emil
notes: label: Description
content: Historians of science and medicine understand that “By the turn of the twentieth century, kymographic recording apparatus had become the central tool of physiological analysis and the symbol of a new style of pedagogy especially in American medical schools.” This kymograph came from the U.S. Naval Medical School. And it was probably made by Emil Zimmermann, an instrument maker who opened a shop in Leipzig in 1887 after having worked for Wilhelm Wundt, the professor of experimental psychology at the University of Leipzig.
label: Description
content: Ref: Merilly Borrell in “Instrumentation and the Rise of Modern Physiology,” in Science & Technology Studies 5 (1987): 53-52.
label: Description
content: Emil Zimmermann, Preis-Liste über psychologische und physiologische Apparate (Leipzig, 1903).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Navy Department, Naval Medical School
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-02385
label: catalog number
content: M-02385
label: accession number
content: 100353
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Kymograph
label: Other Terms
content: Kymograph; Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 22 in x 7 in x 16 1/4 in; 55.88 cm x 17.78 cm x 41.275 cm