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vinyl record, 33 1/3 rpm

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vinyl record, 33 1/3 rpm

Date: circa 1948
Inventory Number: WJ1226
Classification: Record
Subject:
acoustics, psychology,
Maker: Audio Devices Inc
Maker: Sound Seminars
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons, Inc. (1807-present)
Cultural Region:
United States,
Place of Origin:
New York, Cincinnati,
Dimensions:
box: 2.8 × 31 × 31 cm (1 1/8 × 12 3/16 × 12 3/16 in.)
record: 0.1 × 24.9 × 24.9 cm (1/16 × 9 13/16 × 9 13/16 in.)
Material:
paper, vinyl, glassine,
Description:
One 33 1/3 RPM record packaged in glassine and paper sleeves. The audio disk is about "CHOPPED SPEECH" and "THRESHOLD OF AUDIBILIY".
Signedon jacket and record label: Sound Seminars / 2355 Beechmont Ave. / Cincinnati, Ohio
on sleeve: AUDIO DEVICES, INC. / 444 Madison Ave. / New York 22, N.Y.
on record label: JOHN WILEY AND SONS, INC.
InscribedOn label: "Boring, Langfeld and Weld FOUNDATIONS OF PSYCHOLOGY CHOPPED SPEECH and THRESHOLD OF AUDIBILITY John Wiley and Sons, Inc."
Box is marked: "Miss A. Katz Memorial Hall 117, Fragile Record. rec'd from Lamont 11/20/62 to go with Lanyon book. "

On label: SOUND SEMINARS Recorded Lectures and Disscussions. EDWIN G. BORING, THE GREAT MAN IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE. Sound Seminars 2355 Beechmont Ave. Cincinnati, Ohio.
on box: "Miss A. Katz Memorial Hall 117, Fragile Record. rec'd from Lamont 11/20/62 to go with Lanyon book.
on record label: BORING, LANGFELD AND WELD / FOUNDATIONS OF PSYCHOLOGY / CHOPPED SPEECH and THRESHOLD OF AUDIBILITY / John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
Curatorial RemarksThis record on chopped speech is an audio disk based on discussions and from the textbook published by the three authors mentioned on the record label:
Edwin G. Boring, Herbert S. Langfeld, and Harry P. Weld, Foundations of Psychology (New York: Wiley, 1948), 632 pages.

See reference to this record in the manual to WJ1224, p. 35. It states that both recordings are from the Harvard Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory and are for use with chapter 14 of Foundations of Psychology. Stored along with #WJ1227 inside a light blue and tan cardboard box.


ProvenancePsychology Department, William James Hall, Harvard University.

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