Lowe's Graphic Hygrometer
name: label: maker
content: Lowe, Nathaniel M.
notes: label: Description
content: Nathaniel M. Lowe, the manufacturer of Edson's Hygrodeik, designed a similar but somewhat simpler instrument for showing the dew point and relative humidity. In this example, the chart is on a white enamel plate marked "LOWE'S Graphic hygrometer" and a monogram.
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: Gift of Trenton State University
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0230.11
label: accession number
content: 1982.0230
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0230.11
objectType: label: Object Name
content: psychrometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 3/16 in x 8 in x 3 in; 28.41625 cm x 20.32 cm x 7.62 cm