when was phrenology used
The Psycograph The Museum's most popular device was the Psycograph, an antique phrenology machine. Phrenology, created by Austrian physician Franz Joseph Gall, was the 'in theory' of the 19th century for determining personality. According to phrenology, different parts of the brain were organs controlling various character traits. If your head is bigger in an area, you have more of that trait. But if it's flat, there's nothing in there! The Psycograph was patented in 1905 by Henry Lavery of Superior WI. His first machine with 1,900 parts didn't work!