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Documentation on Ray Multitester and Ray Polygraph

American History Museum

Object Details

Description

Included here are:
1. A folder of letters and typescripts relating to a U.S. patent application and patent of the psychologist Joseph J. Ray. The patent for an “educational device”, applied for in 1937, was issued May 2, 1939 as #2157058. Compare 1979.0853.01, the Ray Multitester.
2. Materials sent to J.J. Ray relating to the Institute of American Inventors, about 1939.
3. A folder of biographical materials relating to J. J. Ray
4. Correspondence and publications sent to Ray relating to test scoring equipment and to his patent applications 1935-1937 – includes a leaflet on IBM’s International Test Scorer
5. Materials relating to the possibility of patenting Ray’s polygraph, 1936.
6. Negatives of parts of Ray machines.
7. Notes and drawings of J.J. Ray, about 1920-1935.
For related objects, see the rest of accession 1979.0853 as well as accession 1985.0815.

Location

Currently not on view

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth D. Ray

date made

1930s
1935-1939

ID Number

1979.0853.03

catalog number

1979.0853.03

accession number

1979.0853

Object Name

documentation

Physical Description

paper (overall material)

Measurements

overall: 10 1/2 in x 16 in x 2 1/2 in; 26.67 cm x 40.64 cm x 6.35 cm

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Data Source

National Museum of American History

Subject

Psychology

Metadata Usage

CC0

Link to Original Record

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b4-94f6-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record ID

nmah_1923241

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