Lind Pressure Tube Anemometer
Lind Pressure Tube Anemometer
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- Description
- An anemometer measures wind pressure. This type of pressure tube anemometer originated with James Lind (1736-1812), a Scottish physician. This example came from the Drexel Institute of Technology (now Drexel University).
- Ref: “Description and Use of a Portable Wind Gage by Dr. James Lind,” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (1775): 353.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Lind Pressure Tube Anemometer
- pitot tube
- Measurements
- overall: 14 1/2 in x 9 1/2 in x 5 in; 36.83 cm x 24.13 cm x 12.7 cm
- overall: 14 1/2 in x 12 in x 5 in; 36.83 cm x 30.48 cm x 12.7 cm
- ID Number
- PH.325389
- catalog number
- 325389
- accession number
- 254284
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- Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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