Olfactometer
date: label: date made
content: around 1900
name: label: used at
content: Cornell University
label: maker
content: Kagenaar, D. B.
notes: label: Description
content: A Dutch scientist named Hendrik Zwaardemaker introduced the olfactometer in 1887 and used it to detect and measure odor dilution. Zwaardemaker later found that certain scents neutralize one another. This double (or differential) olfactometer was made by D. B. Kagenaar in Utrecht, and distributed by Stoelting in Chicago. One inscription reads "D.B. Kagenarr Sr / Intrumentenfabrick/ Begijnekade 19, OTRECH T/ gevestigd 1860." Another reads "C.H. STOELTING CO/ SCIENTIFIC APPARATUS/ CHICAGO, ILL."
label: Description
content: Ref: Edward B. Titchener, <i>Experimental Psychology. A Manual of Laboratory Practice</i> (New York, 1906), vol. 1, pp. 79-81.
label: Description
content: C. H. Stoelting Co., <i>Psychological and Physiological Apparatus and Supplies</i> (Chicago, 1930), pp. 40-41.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
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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.300427.033
label: catalog number
content: 300427.033
label: catalog number
content: M-14761
label: accession number
content: 300427
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Apparatus, Testing, Psychological
label: Object Name
content: olfactometer
label: Other Terms
content: Apparatus, Testing, Psychological; Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 41.3 cm x 26.3 cm x 32.2 cm; 16 1/4 in x 10 3/8 in x 12 11/16 in