chronoscope
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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
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
As soon as the point touched the animal the chronoscope circuit was broken by the raising of the upper arm of the key.
From Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. by Hugo Münsterberg
Besides, I had read articles about the chronoscope, the plethysmograph, the sphygmograph, and others of the new psychological instruments.
From The Silent Bullet by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve
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
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