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.
Photo by Lubosh Stepanek
Keywords
kymograph, Wayne Woolley, Alfred Cohn, Samuel Meltzer