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The Neuramœbimeter - continued...

In 1890, William James referred to Exner’s instrument in his Principles of Psychology in the section devoted to the temporal conditions of brain activity. James mocked the ‘chronograph philosophers’ who made use of this and similar timing devices in psychological research. Hugo Münsterberg was not impressed. When he came to Harvard in 1893 in order to organize the local psychology lab, he quickly acquired a neuramœbimeter. Shortly thereafter the striking instrument vanished from sight. In 1930, it re-surfaced in a trade catalogue issued by the Stoelting Company in Chicago. Thereafter it was no longer mentioned in articles and books nor pictured in trade catalogues.

ISSN 1866-4784: reference - xlink