Word: thousandth
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Tests of quickness of movement similar to those made by Dr. Fitz at the Lawrence Scientific School are being made by Professor Scripture of the Yale psychological department. One of the most interesting of these tests is an arrangement for measuring a runner's reaction time down to the thousandth of a second which has been contrived in the Yale Laboratory. The starter's pistol is arranged so that an electric contact is broken when the pistol goes off. A thread is attached to the right foot of the runner which thread breaks an electric contact the moment the runner...
...dislike very much to give the same remedy over and over again and to repeat for the thousandth time the tale of disaster; the trouble is perfectly evident and must be clear even to the men who choose to wink at it. Another call will be madevery soon and we sincerely hope that something will move the freshman baseball men to a proper sense of their responsibility...
...same instant. Hitherto Ewald's key for recording the time of mental reaction has been used, but it will be replaced in laboratory and practical use by the Bliss Multiple Key, which not only saves one-half the labor in making experiments, but records variations of one-ten-thousandth of a second. It is made of unlacquered brass without platinum contact, and so arranged that five currents run through it. One, two or three of these can be made or broken at the same time, or broken for an instant and then made again, or these makes and breaks...