Title

Kymograph

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Creation Date

1920

Description

Kymograph, accession no.65; circa 1920s'

Brass kymograph, dating back to the 1920s. This instrument was used to record muscle activity and other physiological events such as heartbeat and breathing and was handed down through the Rockefeller laboratories of Samuel Meltzer, the University's first physiologist, Dr. Alfred E. Cohn, a major contributor to cardiological research, and Dr. D. Waney Woolley, known for his work in bacteriology, physiology, and biochemistry.

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Keywords

kymograph, Wayne Woolley, Alfred Cohn, Samuel Meltzer

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