Hough Recording Barometer
date: label: date made
content: 1860s
notes: label: Description
content: George Washington Hough (1836-1909) served as director of the Dudley Observatory in Albany, New York, from 1862 to 1874, and as director of the Dearborn Observatory in Chicago from 1879 until his death.
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content: While at the Dudley Observatory, Hough devised a recording thermometer, a recording barometer, and an anemograph. This is an example of his recording barometer.
label: Description
content: Ref: W. E. K. Middleton, <i>Catalog of Meteorological Instruments in the National Museum of History and Technology</i> (Washington, D.C., 1969), pp. 22-23.
label: Description
content: “The Registering Barometer and Thermometer,” <i>New York Daily Tribune</i> (Feb. 17, 1866), p. 9.
label: Description
content: “George Washington Hough,” <i>The Astrophysical Journal</i> 30 (1909): 68.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Albany
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dudley Observatory
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.317417
label: catalog number
content: 317417
label: accession number
content: 229884
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Recording Barometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 50 in x 35 in x 17 in; 127 cm x 88.9 cm x 43.18 cm