Anemometer
name: label: maker
content: Keuffel & Esser Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Anemometer with a “KEUFFEL & ESSER / NEW YORK” inscription on the dial. The paper label in the lid indicates that this is s/n 5967. K&E termed this a Biram anemometer, thus acknowledging Benjamin Biram (1804-1857), the Englishman who invented the form in 1844.
label: Description
content: Ref: Keuffel & Esser, <i>Catalogue of Drawing Materials, Surveying Instruments, Measuring Tapes</i> (New York, 1921), p. 382.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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.317274
label: catalog number
content: 317274
label: accession number
content: 229279
objectType: label: Object Name
content: anemometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall in case: 2 7/8 in x 6 7/8 in x 7 1/8 in; 7.3025 cm x 17.4625 cm x 18.0975 cm