Radiosonde
notes: label: Description
content: Vilho Väisälä (1889-1969), the professor who sent the first Finnish radiosonde aloft in December 1931, established the first Finnish radiosonde firm in 1936. This Väisälä radiosonde, s/n 180140, dates from around 1950.
label: Description
content: Ref: John L. DuBois, Invention and Development of the Radiosonde with a Catalog of Upper-Atmospheric Telemetering Probes in the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution (Washington, D.C., 2002), pp. 47-48.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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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.319825
label: catalog number
content: 319825
label: accession number
content: 240347
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Radiosonde
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 7/8 in x 3 1/2 in x 12 1/4 in; 17.4625 cm x 8.89 cm x 31.115 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 in x 14 in x 8 3/4 in; 17.78 cm x 35.56 cm x 22.225 cm