Photometer
name: label: maker
content: Munro, R. W.
notes: label: Description
content: In 1929, the U.S. Weather Bureau acquired a photometer that could be taken in an airplane and used to measure the reflection of light from ground and water surfaces. This is that instrument. The “R. W. Munro and Co. Makers London” inscription refers to a firm that began in business in 1864, and that now trades as Munro Instruments.
label: Description
content: Ref: Herbert H. Kimball and Irving F. Hand, “Reflectivity of Different Kinds of Surfaces,” <i>Monthly Weather Review</i> (1930): 280-282.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London, City of London
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.322317
label: catalog number
content: 322317
label: accession number
content: 247582
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Photometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 7/8 in x 35 in x 5 3/4 in; 17.4625 cm x 88.9 cm x 14.605 cm