Evaporograph
date: label: date made
content: 1944
name: label: maker
content: Ota Keiki Seisakusho
notes: label: Description
content: An evaporograph (or atmograph) records the rate of evaporation of water from a piece of absorbent paper. This japanese example dates from 1944. The "H. Ota No. 529" inscription refers to an instrument firm in Tokyo that was established in 1943.
label: Description
content: Ref: W. E. K. Middleton, <i>Catalog of Meteorological Instruments in the National Museum of History and Technology</i> (Washington, D.C., 1969), p. 77.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Japan: Tōkyō, Tokyo
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.316273
label: catalog number
content: 316273
label: accession number
content: 224564
objectType: label: Object Name
content: evaporograph
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/2 in x 9 3/4 in x 7 1/2 in; 19.05 cm x 24.765 cm x 19.05 cm