Radiosonde
Radiosonde
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- Description
- The U.S. Weather Bureau transferred this radiosonde to the Smithsonian in 1963. An inscription on the cardboard box reads in part "Olland System Ray Sonde. Julien P. Friez & Sons, Baltimore." Olland was an electrical engineer who developed a telemetry circuit to transmit measurements from Mont Blanc to Paris in 1874.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Radiosonde
- Measurements
- overall: 8 1/4 in x 4 5/16 in x 9 1/2 in; 20.955 cm x 10.95375 cm x 24.13 cm
- ID Number
- PH.322320
- catalog number
- 322320
- accession number
- 247582
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- Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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