Water Stage Indicator
notes: label: Description
content: Montrose W. Hayes joined the U.S. Weather Bureau in 1892, and became Chief of the River and Floods Division in 1929. He developed a water stage indicator in the early 1920s, while working in St. Louis. The Weather Bureau transferred prototype to the Smithsonian in 1954.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Water Currents
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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.314543
label: accession number
content: 204612
label: catalog number
content: 314543
objectType: label: Object Name
content: water stage indicator
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/4 in x 11 in x 8 7/8 in; 23.495 cm x 27.94 cm x 22.5425 cm