Radiosonde
notes: label: Description
content: Radiosonde in a foil-covered cardboard box, with sensing elements for temperature (electrolytic), humidity (hair hygrometer), a baroswitch, a transmitter, and inscriptions that read "Sonde Track...Mfg. Washington Institute of Technology. USWB 1942." This was made for the U.S. Weather Bureau by the Washington Institute of Technology, an organization established in 1933 by aeronautical radio experts who had recently been let go from the National Bureau of Standards, and who wanted to continue their research. The W.I.T. had an office in Washington, D.C., and a laboratory at the airport in College Park, Md. The Plaskon Co., which supplied the plastic for many early radiosondes, donated this to the Smithsonian in 1944.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Plaskon Corp.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.312798
label: catalog number
content: 312798
label: accession number
content: 162632
objectType: label: Object Name
content: radiosonde
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 3/8 in x 9 in x 15 in; 11.1125 cm x 22.86 cm x 38.1 cm