Object Details
- Description
- An ergograph measures muscle contractions. This example was devised by Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm Meumann (1862–1915), a German educator, pedagogist and psychologist. The C.H. STOELTING CO. / CHICAGO ILL U.S.A.” inscription refers to a major American scientific supply firm that began in business in 1886.
- Ref: C. H. Stoelting Co., Apparatus and Supplies for the Manual of Mental and Physical Tests (Chicago, ca. 1911), pp. 7-8.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- used at
- Skidmore College
- Credit Line
- Pyschology Department of Skidmore College
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- cloth (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 11.6 cm x 50.6 cm x 10.4 cm; 4 9/16 in x 19 15/16 in x 4 1/8 in
- Object Name
- Ergograph
