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<p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; "><span class="s1"><b>The Street as Psychological Laboratory: </b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; "><span class="s2"><b>Hugo
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May 11, 1914, a committee of eminent illuminating engineers from the National Electric Light Association (NELA) including Charles Steinmetz, Preston Millar, Louis Bell and John W. Lieb, convened in New York City to discuss their ongoing investigation to optimize
street lighting conditions. However, there were not only engineers at the table; also in attendance was a young graduate student in psychology named Harold E. Burtt. Burtt’s presence at the meeting that day had been arranged by his mentor Hugo Münsterberg—Director
of the Harvard Psychological Laboratory—who had recently joined the NELA Street Lighting Committee in the capacity of academic advisor and psychological expert. In a report prepared one month earlier, Münsterberg had argued that the “higher mental processes”
involved in the Committee’s street lighting investigation had been sorely neglected. Photometric data and tests of visual acuity were insufficient; what was required was careful attention to diverse psychological factors such as attention, reaction time and
motor-coordination. The committee, therefore, resolved to hire Burtt for the summer to run a battery of psychological tests under the varied street lighting conditions afforded by their testing ground, a half-mile stretch of Intervale Avenue in the Bronx.
In this paper I explore the dynamic interaction between psychologists and illuminating engineers in their pioneer efforts to experimentally determine the safest, most efficient, and aesthetically pleasing street lighting configuration. Exploring both points
of consensus and contention, I will show not only how these distinct professional identities were negotiated, but also how their respective forms of expertise and governance were brought to bear on the problem of street lighting in the age of electrification.</font></span></p>
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Blatter is a Ph.D. candidate in the History of Science at Harvard University. In his dissertation,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><i>The Psychotechnics of Everyday Life: Hugo Münsterberg and the Politics of Applied Psychology,
1892-1929</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">, he explores the development of applied psychology by situating this history within an array of prominent academic, political, and cultural debates waged between the Gilded Age
and Progressive Era. In addition to his dissertation research, Blatter is also interested in the intersection of science and visual culture and recently co-curated the exhibit “Cold War in the Classroom: The Material Culture of Mid-Century Science Education”
at Harvard’s Collection of Historical Scientific Instrument</span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; ">s. </span></div>
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