Pyrheliometer
name: label: maker
content: Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company
notes: label: Description
content: Hugh Longborne Callendar (1863-1930), a British physicist, developed a platinum resistance thermometer for measuring solar radiation. This example of that instrument was used by the U.S. Weather Bureau. The inscription reads “The Cambridge Scientific . . . Cambridge, Eng. No. 12139.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Herbert H. Kimball <i>Pyrheliometers and Pyrheliometric Measurements</i> (Washington, D.C.: U. S. Weather Bureau 1931).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, Cambridge
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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.317731
label: catalog number
content: 317731
label: accession number
content: 231230
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pyrheliometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 7/16 in x 5 1/2 in x 3 5/8 in; 18.89125 cm x 13.97 cm x 9.2075 cm