Current Meter (replica)
notes: label: Description
content: Daniel Farrand Henry (1833-1907) graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale, and then spent several years working on the U.S. Survey of the Northern Lakes. In connection with this work, in the winter of 1967-1968, he developed a telegraphic water current meter. This is a modern replica of that instrument.
label: Description
content: Ref: Arthur H. Frazier, “Daniel Farrand Henry’s Cup Type Telegraphic Water Current Meter,” <i>Technology and Culture</i> 5 (1964): 541-565.
label: Description
content: Arthur H. Frazier, <i>Water Current Meters in the Smithsonian Collections of the </i> (Washington, 1974).
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.317670
label: catalog number
content: 317670
label: accession number
content: 231963
objectType: label: Object Name
content: current meter
label: Object Name
content: Henry's telegraphic
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall approx: 10 3/4 in x 44 in x 15 in; 27.305 cm x 111.76 cm x 38.1 cm