Homemade painted metal instrument, with electrical contacts and wiring on base. Thought to be the thermopile used by AV Hill and TP Feng in 1933 to measure the heat produced by a nerve during the transmission of impulses. With conservation at present.
Homemade
Dimensioni
height: 320 mm length: 160 mm width: 65 mm
Documentation
- Hill, AV, The energy degraded in the recovery process of stimulated muscles, 28 - 80. Present - Archibald Vivian Hill (1886 - 1977) - Hill, AV, The speed of response of a Thermopile-galvanometer system - Hill, AV and Weizsacker, V, Improved myothermic apparatus (Demonstration) - Downing, AC and Hill, AV, A new Thermopile for the measurement of nerve-heat production
