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Unpublished paper, 'Observations on the analysis of voluntary muscular movements by certain new instruments' by William R Jack

Reference number: AP/71/6

Date: 1895

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The object of this investigation is to determine the greatest speed of which the voluntary muscular movements are capable, and how far the speed is influenced by age and education.Jack limits the research to a study of the movements of the fingers, as being the easiest parts to examine of the muscular system.

Annotations in ink throughout. Includes two photographs of the instruments used in Jack's analysis.

Subject: Physiology

Received 25 January 1895. Read 21 March 1895. Communicated by J G [John Gray] McKendrick.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 57 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the analysis of voluntary muscular movements by certain new instruments'.

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AP/71/6
Earliest possible date
1895
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
47 pages
Format
Typescript
Photograph

Creator name

William R Jack

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William R Jack, Unpublished paper, 'Observations on the analysis of voluntary muscular movements by certain new instruments' by William R Jack, 1895, AP/71/6, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_71_6/unpublished-paper-observations-on-the-analysis-of-voluntary-muscular-movements-by-certain-new-instruments-by-william-r-jack, accessed on 03 December 2024

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