Hough Recording Barometer
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content: George Washington Hough (1836-1909) was an astronomer who served as director of the Dudley Observatory in Albany, New York, from 1862 to 1874, and as director of the Dearborn Observatory in Chicago from 1879 until his death.
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content: While at the Dudley Observatory, Hough devised a recording thermometer, a recording barometer, and an anemograph. These remnants of a Hough recording barometer came from the Dearborn Observatory.
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content: Ref: W. E. K. Middleton, <i>Catalog of Meteorological Instruments in the National Museum of History and Technology</i> (Washington, D.C., 1969), pp. 22-23.
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content: “The Registering Barometer and Thermometer,” <i>New York Daily Tribune</i> (Feb. 17, 1866), p. 9.
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content: “George Washington Hough,” <i>The Astrophysical Journal</i> 30 (1909): 68.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dearborn Observatory, Northwestern University
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.318284
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content: 233573
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content: 318284
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Recording Barometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: case: 41 in x 42 in x 19 in; 104.14 cm x 106.68 cm x 48.26 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: barometer: 75 in x 24 3/4 in x 42 in; 190.5 cm x 62.865 cm x 106.68 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: glass tube: 3/4 in x 4 in x 46 3/8 in; 1.905 cm x 10.16 cm x 117.7925 cm