Radiosonde
notes: label: Description
content: Radiosonde with elements for temperature (electrolytic), pressure (aneroid), and humidity (hair hygrometer). Inscriptions on the cardboard box read "SONDE TRACK / MANUFACTURED IN U.S.A. / BY / WASHINGTON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY / U.S. PATENT NOS. 2,027,367 – 1,507,367 - 1,507,016 / AND 1,507,017” and “U.S.W.B. 1941.” Edward L. Reilly, the donor, identified this as WIT Sonde Track no. 1, produced on 25 September 1940, flown at Oklahoma City on 1 October, and recovered 13 October at Presque, Oklahoma.
label: Description
content: Reilly was affiliated the Washington Institute of Technology, an organization established in 1933 by experts who had recently been let go from the National Bureau of Standards, and who wanted to continue their aeronautical radio research. WIT had an office in Washington, D.C., and a laboratory at the airport in College Park, Md.
label: Description
content: Ref: William R. Blair, “System of Determining Meteorological Conditions by Radio,” U.S. Patent 2,027,367 (Jan. 14, 1936).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.319744
label: catalog number
content: 319744
label: accession number
content: 239017
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Radiosonde
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/2 in x 4 1/4 in x 9 3/4 in; 21.59 cm x 10.795 cm x 24.765 cm