Sling Psychrometer
name: label: user
content: Byrd, Sr., Richard E.
label: maker
content: H. J. Green
notes: label: Description
content: This instrument is said to have been used by Richard E. Byrd, USN, during his flight to the North Pole on May 9, 1926. It consists of two mercury-in-glass thermometers mounted on an aluminum frame with a wooden handle. The inscriptions on the frame read "H. J. GREEN B'KLYN N.Y." and "No. 648 U.S. WEATHER BUREAU" and "8078" and "8079". The wet bulb thermometer has a milk white back; its clear front is marked "U.S. 8078" and graduated every degree Fahrenheit from -40 to +129. The dry bulb thermometer has a milk-white back; its clear front is marked "U.S. 8079" and is graduated every degree F from -40 to +129.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Brooklyn
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Military
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content: Thermometers and Hygrometers
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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.314552
label: accession number
content: 204612
label: catalog number
content: 314552
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sling psychrometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 18 in x 1 in x 1 in; 45.72 cm x 2.54 cm x 2.54 cm