chronoscope
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The fork, on its resonator, was placed horizontally, the platinum tip just touching the lampblacked cylinder of a Schultze chronoscope.
From Experimental Determination of the Velocity of Light Made at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis by Albert A. Michelson
The introduction of resistance by means of the rheostat, R, was frequently a convenient method of correcting the chronoscope.
From Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. by Hugo Münsterberg
The clock used for exact work is likely to be the Hipp chronoscope, which gives on its dials indications of time intervals in thousandths of a second.
From The Story of the Mind by James Mark Baldwin
Stimulus is given by the operator as soon as the chronoscope is started, and by this act the chronoscope circuit is broken and the record begun.
From Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. by Hugo Münsterberg
IC, interrupted circuits; CC, chronoscope circuit; X, key for making stimulus circuit and breaking chronoscope circuit; B, stimulus battery; S, string from reaction key to animal.
From Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. by Hugo Münsterberg
