Wundt's Beat(making) Apparatus

(Taktier-Apparat nach Wundt)
Description: A drum, rotated by weights, turns in a complete circle in 4 seconds. Pins on the drum are set in rows at different distances so that placing the contact on the slider can select different time intervals and thus different intervals between contact closures. (Expanded caption Copyright 1998, Edward J. Haupt)
(Source: None given.)
Source of illustration: Zimmermann, E. (1903). XVIII. Preis- Liste über psychologische und physiologische Apparate (p. 53). Leipzig: Eduard Zimmermann.

DESCRIPTORS:
Type: component, timing, stimulus
Stimulus: time signal
System: time sense
Output: time judgment

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