Nephoscope
Nephoscope
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- Description
- Carl Gotfried Fineman, a German scientist, designed the nephoscope for observing the altitude, direction and velocity of clouds. The U.S. Weather Bureau transferred this unsigned example to the Smithsonian in 1904.
- Ref: C. G. Fineman, in Zeitsch. fűr Instrum. 6 (1886): 206-208.
- William E. K. Middleton, Catalog of Meteorological Instruments in the National Museum of History and Technology (Washington, D.C., 1969), pp. 94-95.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- nephoscope
- Measurements
- overall: 2 3/4 in x 10 in; 6.985 cm x 25.4 cm
- ID Number
- PH.316153
- catalog number
- 316153
- accession number
- 224002
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- Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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