Lind Pressure Tube Anemometer
notes: label: Description
content: An anemometer measures wind pressure. This type of pressure tube anemometer originated with James Lind (1736-1812), a Scottish physician. This example came from the Drexel Institute of Technology (now Drexel University).
label: Description
content: Ref: “Description and Use of a Portable Wind Gage by Dr. James Lind,” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (1775): 353.
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.325389
label: catalog number
content: 325389
label: accession number
content: 254284
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Lind Pressure Tube Anemometer
label: Object Name
content: pitot tube
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 1/2 in x 9 1/2 in x 5 in; 36.83 cm x 24.13 cm x 12.7 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 1/2 in x 12 in x 5 in; 36.83 cm x 30.48 cm x 12.7 cm