Radiosonde
notes: label: Description
content: Paul Duckert (1900-1966) was a German meteorologist who began working at the Lindenberg Aeronautical Observatory in 1921 and flew a radiosonde of his own design in 1930. This German made, Duckert style radiosonde dates from 1932. Withing the clear plastic cover and aluminum frame there is a vacuum tube transmitter, a toothed wheel switch actuated by a Bourdon tube (also the pressure element), and a bimetallic temperature element. The National Bureau of Standards transferred this to the Smithsonian in 1950. The inscription reads "NBS no. 0203."
label: Description
content: Ref: 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), pp. 34-40.
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.313527
label: catalog number
content: 313527
label: accession number
content: 188571
objectType: label: Object Name
content: radiosonde
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 in x 3 3/8 in x 7 3/8 in; 30.48 cm x 8.5725 cm x 18.7325 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 1/16 in x 3 in x 7 7/8 in; 30.63875 cm x 7.62 cm x 20.0025 cm