Balloon Meteorograph
name: label: maker
content: Richard Freres
notes: label: Description
content: Barothermohydrograph for use with captive balloons or kites (c. 1896). Made by Richard Freres of Paris for American meteorologist Abbot Lawrence Rotch [1861-1912], founder and director of Blue Hill Observatory near Boston, Massachusetts. The instrument was capable of measuring relative humidity with a hair hygrometer, as well as pressure and temperature.
label: Description
content: J. L. Dubois, R. P. Multhauf, and C. A. Ziegler "The Invention and Development of the Radiosonde with A Catalog of Upper-Atmospheric Telemetering Probes in the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution", p. 7 (https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/2453)
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Département de Ville-de-Paris
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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.308209
label: catalog number
content: 308209
label: accession number
content: 70852
objectType: label: Object Name
content: meteorograph, balloon
label: Object Name
content: Kite Meteorograph
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 7/8 in x 3 1/2 in x 8 9/16 in; 25.07932 cm x 8.89 cm x 21.74875 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 7/8 in x 3 1/2 in x 8 5/8 in; 25.0825 cm x 8.89 cm x 21.9075 cm