Jim Clark wrote: > Hi > > Following up on Chris's clue, I found what is called a "Wundt style > chronograph" at (see left-most image at top): > > http://www3.niu.edu/acad/psych/Millis/wundtslab/gallery2.htm > > Perhaps this would be a reasonable approximation to Donders' device? I'll > probably substitute it for the Hipp Chronoscope I currently use in lectures > on this material. Unless someone finds something better?? > > You might take a look at the website of the Archives of the History of American Psychology -- http://www3.uakron.edu/ahap/ -- which has dozens of photographs of historical psychological equipment. See especially the "Measurement & Recording" section of their "Instruments & App Collection" -- http://www3.uakron.edu/ahap/apparatus/category_list.phtml?code_id=6 -- where you will find chronographs, chronometers, chronoscopes, kymographs, among many other things.
Another "must see" is Henning Schmidgen's "Vitrual Laboratory" -- http://vlp.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/index_html -- which has plates of a large number of kymographs and chronoscopes (among many other things) in the "technology" section -- http://vlp.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/technology Best, Chris -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada 416-736-5115 ex. 66164 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ ================================== ---
