Dynamometre pour les Forces [Dynamometer]
date: label: Date made
content: c. mid-nineteenth century
label: date made
content: 1860-1871
name: label: maker
content: Robert & Collin
notes: label: Description
content: Dynamometers measure strength, of people, animals, and machines. Edmé Régnier—a gunmaker in Paris who served on the Commission for firearms during the French Revolution, and later as the founding Director of the Musée d’Artillerie—introduced the first successful form in the late 1790s. Charles Emmanuel Sédillot, a French military surgeon, described the use of dynamometers to treat dislocations in 1834. Joseph-Frédéric-Benoît Charrière, a leading medical and surgical instrument maker in Paris, made Régnier dynamometers according to Sédillot’s specifications. This small brass instrument is of that sort. The inscription reads “Dynamomètre / pour les Forces / ROBERT & COLIN”. Appolinaire Robert and Anatole Collin began in business in 1860, after having apprenticed with and worked for Charrière. Collin became the sole proprietor of the firm in 1871.
label: Description
content: Ref: J. Charrière, <i>Notice des Instruments de Chirurgie Humaine et Vétérinaire</i> (Paris, 1862), p. 155.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
topic: label: Subject
content: Medical Procedure- Surgery
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: 1978.0874.03
label: accession number
content: 1978.0874
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0874.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dynamometer
label: Other Terms
content: Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: leather (grip material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass; steel; leather (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15.9 cm x 24.8 cm x 4.2 cm; 6 1/4 in x 9 3/4 in x 1 5/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall, as stored: 1 7/8 in x 10 in x 6 1/2 in; 4.7625 cm x 25.4 cm x 16.51 cm