Psychrometer
name: label: maker
content: H. J. Green
notes: label: Description
content: Here, a wooden box with a split lid opens to reveal two mercury-in-glass thermometers, each on its own metal plate. The plate holding the wet bulb thermometer is marked "H.J. GREEN B'KLYN, N.Y." and "No. 4137 U.S. WEATHER BUREAU." The plate holding the dry bulb thermometer (the bulb is broken) is marked " H.J. GREEN B'KLYN, N.Y." and "No. 4135 U.S. WEATHER BUREAU." On the base of the box is a paper card that reads "DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE WEATHER BUREAU Correction Ca. . .ercurial Thermometer."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Brooklyn
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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.317477
label: accession number
content: 230396
label: catalog number
content: 317477
objectType: label: Object Name
content: psychrometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 in; 22.86 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in box: 1 1/16 in x 2 5/16 in x 10 3/4 in; 2.69875 cm x 5.87375 cm x 27.305 cm