Kite Meteorograph
notes: label: Description
content: Kite meteorograph designed in 1897 by Charles F. Marvin (1858-1943), meteorologist with the U.S. Army Signal Corps and then the U.S. Weather Bureau. It was probably made by the Schneider Bros., an instrument firm located in Jersey City, New Jersey. It measured four elements of the weather: wind velocity, temperature, pressure and humidity.
label: Description
content: Ref: Report of the Chief of the Weather Bureau, 1897-98 (1898).
label: Description
content: “C. F. MARVIN DEAD; U.S. METEOROLOGIST,” New York Times (June 6, 1943), p. 42.
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.316156
label: catalog number
content: 316156
label: accession number
content: 224002
objectType: label: Object Name
content: kite meteorgraph
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 5/8 in x 11 in x 10 in; 14.2875 cm x 27.94 cm x 25.4 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/2 in x 11 in x 10 1/2 in; 13.97 cm x 27.94 cm x 26.67 cm