Sunshine Recorder
name: label: maker
content: Friez, Julien P.
notes: label: Description
content: Charles F. Marvin, a young scientist working for the U.S. Weather Bureau, described this type of photographic sunshine recorder in 1892, noting that it was widely used by the Weather Bureau. The inscriptions on this example read “JULIEN P. FRIEZ, BALTO, MD.” and “U.S. WEATHER BUREAU / NO. 55.”
label: Description
content: Ref: C. F. Marvin, “Sunshine Recorders,” American Meteorological Journal 9 (1892): 345-349.
label: Description
content: Julien P. Friez, Catalogue (Baltimore, 1893), pp. 38-39.
label: Description
content: C. F. Marvin, Instructions for the Care and Management of Sunshine Recorders (Washington, D.C., 1901).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
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.314539
label: catalog number
content: 314539
label: accession number
content: 204612
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sunshine recorder
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 7/8 in x 10 1/2 in x 7 1/8 in; 22.5425 cm x 26.67 cm x 18.0975 cm