Assmann Psychrometer
date: label: date made
content: after 1891
label: date made
content: after 1892
name: label: maker
content: R. Fuess
notes: label: Description
content: Richard Assmann, a German meteorologist and professor at the University of Berlin, designed an "aspiration psychrometer" that used a clockwork fan to draw air past the bulbs. The "R. Fuess Berlin-Steglitz 1121460" inscription on this example identifies the manufacturer.
label: Description
content: Ref: R. Assmann, "Aspirationspsychromometer," <i>Zeitschrift fur Instrumentenkunde</i> 12 (1892): 1-12.
label: Description
content: R. Fuess, <i>Liste D2 über Thermometer, Psychrometer, Hygrometer und Hypsometer </i> (Steglitz, 1910), pp. 6-8.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Berlin, Berlin
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Thermometers and Hygrometers
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content: Measuring & Mapping
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: U.S. Weather Bureau
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.317727
label: accession number
content: 231230
label: catalog number
content: 317727
objectType: label: Object Name
content: psychrometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 7/8 in x 9 5/8 in x 3 7/8 in; 9.8425 cm x 24.4475 cm x 9.8425 cm