Lowe's Psychrometer
date: label: date made
content: late 19th century
name: label: maker
content: Lowe, Nathaniel M.
notes: label: Description
content: Nathaniel M. Lowe, the manufacturer of Edson's Hygrodeik, patented a similar but somewhat simpler instrument for showing relative humidity. In this example, the chart is marked "LOWE'S Graphic Hygrometer or Hygrodeik" and "N. M. LOWE, BOSTON, Mass." and "Patented April 9, 1878."
label: Description
content: Ref: N. M. Lowe, "Psychrometers," U.S. Patent 202276 (1878).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Thermometers and Hygrometers
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content: Measuring & Mapping
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Drexel Institute of Technology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.325390
label: catalog number
content: 325390
label: accession number
content: 254284
objectType: label: Object Name
content: psychrometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 9/16 in x 8 in x 3 in; 29.36875 cm x 20.32 cm x 7.62 cm