Ombroscope
notes: label: Description
content: Sterling Price Ferguson, an employee of the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory in Massachusetts, described a new instrument for determining the time and duration of rain in 1905. The U.S. Weather Bureau transferred this example to the Smithsonian in 1959.
label: Description
content: Ref: S. P. Ferguson, “Two New Meteorological Instruments: The Automatic Polar Starlight Recorder; The Ombroscope,” Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 31 (1905): 309-316.
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.316817
label: catalog number
content: 316817
label: accession number
content: 228768
objectType: label: Object Name
content: ombroscope
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in x 20 3/4 in x 11 1/4 in; 25.4 cm x 52.705 cm x 28.575 cm