ergograph
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- noun An instrument for recording muscular work; a recording dynamometer or ergometer: used especially in the study of muscular fatigue.
Examples
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As with strength of grip, so with endurance as measured by the ergograph; boys surpass girls at all ages, and this differentiation becomes very marked after the age of fourteen, after which age girls increase in strength and endurance but very slightly, while after fourteen boys acquire almost exactly half of the total power in these two features which they acquire in the first twenty years of life.
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Perhaps the time will come when science and commerce will supply every tintype photographer with an ergograph and the knowledge to use it.
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Then we shall hear at summer resorts and fairs, Your ergograph on a postal card, three for a quarter.
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The one scientific instrument it seemed possible to use was an ergograph, a complicated and expensive instrument kindly lent to us from the physiological laboratory of the University of Chicago.
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Féré found that the application of a mustard plaster to the skin, or an icebag, or a hot-water bottle, or even a light touch with a painter's brush, all exerted a powerful effect in increasing muscular work with the ergograph.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man
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Professor Tarchanoff made use of the ergograph of Mosso, and found that if the fingers were completely fatigued, either by voluntary efforts or by electric excitation, to the point of being incapable of making any mark except a straight line on the registering cylinder, music had the power of making the fatigue disappear, and the finger placed in the ergograph again commenced to mark lines of different heights, according to the amount of excitation.
Note
The word 'ergograph' comes from Greek roots meaning 'work' and 'writing'.
