Ombroscope
Ombroscope
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- Description
- Sterling Price Ferguson, an employee of the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory in Massachusetts, described a new instrument for determining the time and duration of rain in 1905. The U.S. Weather Bureau transferred this example to the Smithsonian in 1959.
- Ref: S. P. Ferguson, “Two New Meteorological Instruments: The Automatic Polar Starlight Recorder; The Ombroscope,” Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 31 (1905): 309-316.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- ombroscope
- Measurements
- overall: 10 in x 20 3/4 in x 11 1/4 in; 25.4 cm x 52.705 cm x 28.575 cm
- ID Number
- PH.316817
- catalog number
- 316817
- accession number
- 228768
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- Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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