Lambrecht's Polymeter
date: label: date made
content: 1890-1913
name: label: maker
content: Lambrecht, Wilhelm
label: maker
content: Friez, Julien P.
notes: label: Description
content: Lambrecht’s Polymeter is a multi-purpose meteorological instrument consisting of a mercury thermometer for temperature (missing in this example) and a hair hygrometer for humidity. The inscriptions on the face of this example read "LAMBRECHT'S POLYMETER" and "JULIEN P. FRIEZ / Meteorological Instruments and Apparatus BALTIMORE (Md.) U.S.A."
label: Description
content: Wilhelm Lambrecht (1834-1904), a mechanical, optical and meteorological instrument maker in Göttingen, designed this type of hair hygrometer around 1880. The firm remains in business, advertising as "The Weather Specialists Since 1859."
label: Description
content: Julien P. Friez opened a workshop in Baltimore in 1890; he took his elder son into partnership in 1913 and began trading as J.P. Friez & Son. In 1895, he announced in the <i>American Meteorological Journal</i> that he was “Special American Agent for Lambrecht’s famous Polymeter, the best single instrument ever invented for making FROST AND WEATHER FORECASTS.”
label: Description
content: Ref: “The Polymeter” in Julien P. Friez, <i>Illustrated Catalogue of Meteorological Instruments and Apparatus</i> (Baltimore, 1893), pp. 35-37.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Lower Saxony, Göttingen
label: place made
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Measuring & Mapping
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: U.S. Weather Bureau
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.314562
label: accession number
content: 204612
label: catalog number
content: 314562
objectType: label: Object Name
content: polymeter
label: Object Name
content: dew point apparatus
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 7/16 in x 3 1/8 in x 1 in; 23.97125 cm x 7.9375 cm x 2.54 cm