Spirometer, Stoelting, 1930

Spirometer_Stoelting_1930_Hutchinson

From Stoelting, C. H. 1930. Apparatus, Tests and Supplies for Psychology, Psychometry, Psychotechnology, Psychiatry, Neurology, Anthropology, Phonetics, Physiology, and Pharmacology. Chicago.  Page 212.

Described as a “Spirometer, Wet, Hutchinson’s.  Used to measure the total quantity of air that can be forcibly expired after a maximal inspiration.  It is calibrated in cubic decimeters and cubic inches and can be used with either glass or wood mouthpieces.”

The picture looks identical to that used in textbooks from around 1900.  The Hutchinson spirometer lives on virtually unchanged almost 90 years after it was first invented!

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