chronoscope
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Besides, I had read articles about the chronoscope, the plethysmograph, the sphygmograph, and others of the new psychological instruments.
From The Silent Bullet by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve
As soon as the point touched the animal the chronoscope circuit was broken by the raising of the upper arm of the key.
From Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. by Hugo Münsterberg
The fork, on its resonator, was placed horizontally, the platinum tip just touching the lampblacked cylinder of a Schultze chronoscope.
From Experimental Determination of the Velocity of Light Made at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis by Albert A. Michelson
It is merely two wire electrodes which could be placed upon the animal, with the additional device of a key for the breaking of the chronoscope circuit the instant the stimulus was given.
From Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. by Hugo Münsterberg
IC, interrupted circuits; CC, chronoscope circuit; X, key for making stimulus circuit and breaking chronoscope circuit; B, stimulus battery; S, string from reaction key to animal.
From Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. by Hugo Münsterberg
