Pyranometer
notes: label: Description
content: A pyranometer measures sky radiation. This example is one of several that were built and tested by Charles Greeley Abbot and Loyal B. Aldrich at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Abbot joined the SAO in 1895 and later served as director of the organization. Aldrich moved to Washington in 1907 to work with Abbot; in time he too would lead the SAO.
label: Description
content: Ref: C. G. Abbot and L. B. Aldrich, The Pyranometer—An Instrument for Measuring Solar Radiation (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1916).
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.314881
label: catalog number
content: 314881
label: accession number
content: 211531
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pyranometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 9/16 in x 6 1/8 in; 14.12875 cm x 15.5575 cm