One of these photographs shows the eighty-seven year old Sir Francis Galton in his bath chair. The whistle, later named the Galton whistle, was equipped with a slide that enabled one to change its frequency. Housed in the Galton Collection at UCL are eight curious whistle components, in an original cardboard box, and two framed photographs dated to 1909. WITHIN the last few days I have had the opportunity of making observations with Galton's whistle upon a large number of people and upon some cats, and I have come to some conclusions. During the first 30 years of this century, Galtons whistle was in wide use, but due to unavoidable inherent flaws it later gave way to the monochord and eventually to tone audiometry. Although he died in 1911, well before the idea of. In his book, Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism
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