Article ID: CBB180648564

“Do Not Kill Guinea Pig before Setting up Apparatus”: The Kymograph's Lost Educational Context (2017)

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The objects of science education are transformed, degraded and disappeared for many reasons, and sometimes take other things with them when they go. This close reading of an undergraduate physiology laboratory report demonstrates how the kymograph was never a stand-alone instrument, but intertwined with conceptual frameworks and technical skills, laboratory amenities, materials, animal supply, technicians. Replacing the obsolete kymograph entails changing all of that, though our usual stories are focussed on progress associated with better measurements with fewer complications, not complications themselves. Such interconnectedness between progress and demise raises uncomfortable challenges for laboratory pedagogy, and for museum practice: what is laboratory education really about, and what kinds of heritage should museums, libraries and archives preserve to document it?

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Authors & Contributors
Greenslade, Thomas B., Jr.
Pilkington, Olga A.
Di Lorenzo, Pietro
Romano, Paola
Cavaliere, Maria Rosa
Petillo, Maria Candida
Concepts
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Laboratories
Science education and teaching
Museums
Physics
Collections
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
20th century, early
17th century
20th century, late
Places
Italy
Brazil
Lisbon (Portugal)
Ghana
Kentucky (U.S.)
Naples (Italy)
Institutions
Museo de La Plata (Argentina)
Vanderbilt University
Lehigh University
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