Marvin Water Stage Register
name: label: maker
content: Schneider
label: maker
content: Schneider Brothers
notes: label: Description
content: This instrument is marked “U.S. WEATHER BUREAU / RIVER STATION INDICATOR No. 11 / SCHNEIDER BROS. N.Y.” It was introduced by Charles F. Marvin, a physicist who joined the federal weather service in the early 1880s, and rose to become Chief of the U.S. Weather Bureau. That organization transferred it to the Smithsonian in 1954.
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
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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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.314523
label: accession number
content: 204612
label: catalog number
content: 314523
objectType: label: Object Name
content: water stage register
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 in x 12 1/2 in; x 10.16 cm x 31.75 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/4 in x 12 3/4 in; 10.795 cm x 32.385 cm