The Collin dynamometer: History of the development of an instrument for measuring physical and mental strength

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Collin dynamometer: History of the development of an instrument for measuring physical and mental strength

Original language description

One of the first instruments to be used by psychologists was the manual dynamometer, which was first used to measure the physical strength of individuals before later coming to be a tool for measuring “mental strength”. In fact, all of the first mental tests to be invented (e.g. Cattell, 1890) consisted in psycho-physical tests of manual strength using a dynamometer. Here we shall present a history of the technical development of the dynamometer, while also taking account of its interest for psychology. By far the best known dynamometer at the turn of the 20th century was the instrument made and sold by the mechanical engineer Anatole Collin. The size, shape and method of this dynamometer were the result of a whole series of improvements introduced since the instrument invented by Regnier (1798) and then transformed, in particular during the 19th century, by the French physicians Burq and Duchenne de Boulogne. As of the middle of the 19th century, the catalogs of many makers, in particular in France (e.g. Lüer, Charrière, Mathieu), were to include dynamometers. However, the instrument that was to become most firmly established was the one made by Collin and used, in particular, in the experimental work of Binet and other psychologists of renown. This instrument was to become an indispensable tool not only for psychologists but also for physicians, physiologists, anthropologists and medical doctors within the context of their work.

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Annee Psychologique

ISSN

0003-5033

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Volume of the periodical

117

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

FR - FRANCE

Number of pages

47

Pages from-to

173-219

UT code for WoS article

000413991600002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85036612123