Aneroid Barograph
name: label: maker
content: Friez, Julien P.
notes: label: Description
content: The War Department Signal Corps transferred this aneroid barograph to the Smithsonian in 1923. One metal tag reads "BAROGRAPH / TYPE ML3 / SERIAL 102 / SIGNAL CORPS / U.S. ARMY / ORDER 110488 / DATE 5.22.23." Another reads "JULIEN P. FRIEZ & SONS.”
label: Description
content: Julien P. Friez (1850-1916) was born in France and emigrated to the U.S. around 1868. He opened a machine shop in Baltimore in 1890 and was soon specializing in meteorological instruments. The firm began trading as Julien P. Friez & Son in 1913, and as Julien P. Friez & Sons in 1914.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
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.308189
label: catalog number
content: 308189
label: accession number
content: 70852
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Aneroid Barograph
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 5/8 in x 10 3/4 in x 5 1/4 in; 14.2875 cm x 27.305 cm x 13.335 cm