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This rich historical resource has already provided the basis
for three books.
Published under the title Psychological Apparatus
respectively in 2005, 2006, and 2008, each book provides
a description of 50 items from experimental and applied
psychology with full-colour illustrations. From these three
books, the author has now selected 75 of the best-known
items for the English edition.
Like the other books, the English edition is subdivided into
the two disciplines of experimental and applied psychology.
The following topics are covered under experimental
psychology: development of graph-plotting apparatus,
measurement of reaction times, control apparatus, colour
mixers, ergographs, sense of vision and optical illusions.
Some of the apparatus from experimental psychology
were in use at the time of Wilhelm Wundt. Items such as
the rotation apparatus for complication tests after Wilhelm
Wundt, the medium control hammer, the kymograph, the
Marey s capsule and the voice key after Römer, to mention
but a few, could be found in his laboratory in Leipzig from
1879 onwards.
The topics relating to commercial psychology, a subdiscipline
of applied psychology, include railway and
road transport testing apparatus, traffi c management and
general occupational aptitude tests.
The author fi nds the historical name Psychotechnik
( psycho-technology ) particularly appropriate for this
sub-discipline of applied psychology from the 1920s
onwards, since many of these items could not have been
manufactured without technical knowledge.
The author:
Christian Paulitsch has been the restorer at the Institute
for History of Modern Psychology for more than 20 years.
He directs the Instrument and Apparatus Collection there,
with responsibility for restoration and conservation, and
is responsible for conservation in the other areas of the
collection. He has entered all the items in the collection
in a register, an inventory and in digital format in a text
processing program (Lars up to 2008 and Citavi from 2008).
Author s e-mail: info@psychologischeapparate.de
