Recording Rain Gauge
name: label: maker
content: Julien P. Friez & Sons, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: Sterling Price Fergusson (1868-1959) was born in Tennessee and at age 21, despite the lack of much formal education, became an instrument maker and observer at the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory in Milton, Mass. In the years 1916-1931, he served as meteorologist in charge of the Instrumental Testing Laboratories of the U.S. Weather Bureau. He then returned to Blue Hill and remained there until the end of World War II.
label: Description
content: One Fergusson invention was rain gauge that recorded weight rather than volume. The first example was dated 1888. This example of his improved version was made after 1880 by Julien P. Friez & Sons, Baltimore MD. The U.S. Army Signal Corps transferred it to the Smithsonian in 1923.
label: Description
content: Ref: S. P. Fergusson, “Improved Gages for Precipitation,” Monthly Weather Review 49 (1921): 379-386.
label: Description
content: “Sterling Price Fergusson,” Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 41 (1960): 224, 233.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
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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.308203
label: catalog number
content: 308203
label: accession number
content: 70852
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Recording Rain Gauge
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 69 cm x 29 cm x 29 cm; 27 5/32 in x 11 13/32 in x 11 13/32 in
label: Measurements
content: overall; instrument body: 26 3/4 in x 11 5/8 in x 11 5/8 in; 67.945 cm x 29.5275 cm x 29.5275 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall; rain catcher: 11 5/8 in x 9 1/4 in; 29.5275 cm x 23.495 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall; chart holder: 6 5/8 in x 4 in; 16.8275 cm x 10.16 cm