Sunshine Recorder
name: label: maker
content: H. J. Green
notes: label: Description
content: This sunshine recorder is essentially a pinhole camera that records the image of the moving sun onto a piece of photo-sensitive paper. It resembles the form developed in the 1880s by James B. Jordan in London and used by the British Meteorological Service. The inscription on the side support reads "H. J. GREEN B'klyn. N.Y."
label: Description
content: Ref: James B. Jordan, “Jordan’s New Pattern Photographic Sunshine Recorder,” Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 14 (1888): 212-217.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Brooklyn
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: 1983.0039.20
label: catalog number
content: 1983.0039.20
label: accession number
content: 1983.0039
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sunshine recorder
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/2 in x 6 3/4 in x 5 1/8 in; 13.97 cm x 17.145 cm x 13.0175 cm