Armsby Respiration Calorimeter took the guesswork out of feeding livestock
Henry Prentiss Armsby developed one of the first respiration calorimeters in the country here at Penn State. After seeing one in Europe Armsby saw the utility in having such a device in America. With it, farmers could more precisely know how livestock were metabolizing their rations.
An Oral History of the Armsby Calorimeter at Penn State
This educational video represents an oral history of the Armsby Calorimeter, as told by Truman Hershberger. Mr. Hershberger is the last researcher to have worked in the Calorimeter when it was fully operational. Today, the Calorimeter stands as a museum, but the chamber and equipment inside highlight the cutting edge technology and research that was happening at Penn State at the turn of the 20th century.
