Anemometer
name: label: maker
content: Friez, Julien P.
notes: label: Description
content: The U.S. Weather Bureau transferred this 4-cup Robinson-type anemometer to the Smithsonian in 1904. The inscription on the dial reads “U.S. WEATHER BUREAU / No. 295 / JULIEN P. FRIEZ, BALTO. MD.” Julien P. Friez (1850-1916) was born in France, emigrated to the U.S. around 1868, opened a machine shop in Baltimore in 1890, and specialized in meteorological instruments.
label: Description
content: Ref: Julien P. Friez, <i>Illustrated Catalogue of Meteorological Instruments and Apparatus</i> (Baltimore, 1893). pp. 8-9.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
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.230001
label: catalog number
content: 230001
label: accession number
content: 42625
objectType: label: Object Name
content: anemometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 18 1/8 in x 17 5/8 in; 46.0375 cm x 44.7675 cm