Radiosonde
notes: label: Description
content: Radiosonde number 493 based on the design of Karl Sittel and Ernst Menzer. The aluminum case, with its lower section painted black, contains elements for measuring temperature (a ceramic, temperature sensitive dielectric), pressure (aneroid barometer controlling a condenser), and humidity (wet and dry bulb). Sittel was a German physicist who became a United States citizen in 1953. Menzer was associated with the Rundfunk Technisches Institut in Nuremberg.
label: Description
content: Ref: Karl Sittel and Ernst Menzer, “An Improved Fully Electric Radiosonde,” Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 31 (1950): 341-349.
label: Description
content: John L. DuBois, Invention and Development of the Radiosonde with a Catalog of Upper-Atmospheric Telemetering Probes in the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution (Washington, D.C., 2002), p. 62.
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.314513
label: catalog number
content: 314513
label: accession number
content: 204101
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Radiosonde
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 1/2 in x 5 3/4 in x 4 in; 29.21 cm x 14.605 cm x 10.16 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 in x 7 in x 4 1/2 in; 30.48 cm x 17.78 cm x 11.43 cm