Tremometer

A tremometer / trémographe or ataxiameter / ataxiagraphe is a device making it possible to test the capacity of an individual to maintain motionless part of its body or to drive it by controlling its gesture, and which for that measures the characteristics of the involuntary Tremblement S that it presents while trying to do it (frequency, amplitude).

They for example are used to measure the consequences of a physical effort, but also in the lie detector , or to appreciate a state of Ivresse.

Similar devices are employed as plays of address. They rest on the use of a conducting property . The subject holds an instrument in its Main, and must pass it in a narrow opening, the instrument and the support being both conductive and connected to same a Electrical circuit; if it trembles and that it touches the edges of them, it completes, which starts an unspecified alert device (emission of a its, lighting of a Lampe).

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