Suppliers of Precision Instruments for the Early Psychology Laboratories. On the Reputation of the Zimmermann and Verdin Firms Around 1900

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/J.EYHP.5.118910" target="_blank" >10.1484/J.EYHP.5.118910</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Suppliers of Precision Instruments for the Early Psychology Laboratories. On the Reputation of the Zimmermann and Verdin Firms Around 1900

Original language description

The main purpose of this paper is to highlight the importance of instrument makers during the early years of the nascent experimental psychology in order to assess their role in its development.nWe analysed and compared the reputations of German and French instrument makers who manufactured devices that populated experimental psychology laboratories in Europe, the United States and the rest of the world. In the first part of the article we present a list of the main firms mentioned by Münsterberg and Titchener that provided instruments for the equipment of psychology laboratories at the turn of the twentieth century. In the second part of the paper the renown of German, English, American, French, and other instrument makers is investigated via the prizes awarded at some international exhibitions. Although the Zimmermann firm was well known in the domain of psychology because of its close relation with Wundt’s laboratory, several other firms also had an international reputation in psychology, notably the French firm Verdin. The last part of the paper is a comparative analysis of the international importance of the Zimmermann and Verdin firms based on the purchase of instruments by two famous directors (Münsterberg and Titchener) of American psychology laboratories around 1900.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

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

2019

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

European Yearbook of the History of Psychology

ISSN

2295-5267

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Volume of the periodical

5

Issue of the periodical within the volume

listopad

Country of publishing house

BE - BELGIUM

Number of pages

39

Pages from-to

11-49

UT code for WoS article

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