Marvin Water Stage Register (Transmitter)
name: label: maker
content: Seth Thomas Clock Co.
notes: label: Description
content: This is the transmitter for an instrument that was introduced in 1904 by Charles F. Marvin, a physicist who joined the federal weather service in the early 1880s, and rose to become Chief of the Weather Bureau. That organization transferred it to the Smithsonian in 1954, noting that it had been used at Columbus, Ohio. The clock movement is marked “SETH THOMAS.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Roy Norton Covert, <i>Instructions for the Installation and Maintenance of Marvin Water-Stage Registers</i> (Washington, D.C., 1921).
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.314524
label: accession number
content: 204612
label: catalog number
content: 314524
objectType: label: Object Name
content: transmitter
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in x 7 in x 6 3/16 in; 25.4 cm x 17.78 cm x 15.748 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in case: 7 7/8 in x 10 1/8 in x 6 7/8 in; 20.0025 cm x 25.7175 cm x 17.4625 cm