Hygrometer
name: label: maker
content: Plaskon Company, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: Hair hygrometer for a radiosonde with a “WIT” inscription. This was designed by the Washington Institute of Technology for the U.S. Navy and made in 1942. The Plaskon Co., which supplied the plastic for many early radiosondes, donated it to the Smithsonian in 1944.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio, Toledo
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.312799
label: catalog number
content: 312799
label: accession number
content: 162632
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Hygrometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/4 in x 3 5/8 in x 8 in; 5.715 cm x 9.2075 cm x 20.32 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/4 in x 3 in x 8 in; 5.715 cm x 7.62 cm x 20.32 cm