Sunshine Recorder
notes: label: Description
content: This sunshine recorder is essentially a pinhole camera that records the image of the moving sun onto a piece of photo-sensitive paper. The form was developed in the 1880s by James B. Jordan in London and used by the British Meteorological Service. The Water Resources Branch of the U.S. Geological Society transferred this example to the Smithsonian in 1908.
label: Description
content: Ref: James B. Jordan, “Jordan’s New Pattern Photographic Sunshine Recorder,” Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 14 (1888): 212-217.
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.248689
label: catalog number
content: 248689
label: accession number
content: 48341
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sunshine recorder
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/4 in x 5 7/8 in x 4 7/8 in; 13.335 cm x 14.9225 cm x 12.3825 cm