Wind Vane / Anemometer
name: label: maker
content: Eichner, Laurits Christian
notes: label: Description
content: This replica represents an instrument for measuring the direction and strength of the wind that was devised by Robert Hooke in London, in the 1660s.
label: Description
content: Ref: George Rooke, <i>Instructions for Sea-men</i> (London, 1666), with appendix by Robert Hooke.
label: Description
content: Alexander Bryson, “Exposition of the Mechanical Inventions of Dr. Robert Hooke,” <i>The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal</i> 4 (1856): 12-26.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.318489
label: accession number
content: 234836
label: catalog number
content: 318489
objectType: label: Object Name
content: wind vane (replica)
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 20 in x 5 1/2 in; 50.8 cm x 13.97 cm