The importance of instrument makers for the development of experimental psychology: the case of alfred binet at the sorbonne laboratory

The objective of this article is twofold: (1) to show the considerable activity carried out by early psychologists to finalize new laboratory instruments in order to develop their research projects; (2) to reassess the work of a major figure in French psychology through his activity as a designer of precision instruments. The development of these new instruments would certainly have been difficult without the presence in Paris of numerous precision instrument manufacturers such as Charles Verdin, Otto Lund, Henri Collin, and Lucien Korsten, on whom Binet successively called in order to develop his projects in the field of experimental psychology.
Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tags: Original Article Source Type: research