Assmann Psychrometer
date: label: date made
content: ca 1941
notes: label: Description
content: Richard Assmann, a German meteorologist and professor at the University of Berlin, designed an "aspiration psychrometer" that used a clockwork fan to draw air past the bulbs. This example, of Soviet origin, has an electric rather than a clockwork motor. It bears the numbers A735203 and N124936.
label: Description
content: Ref: Assmann, "Aspirationspsychromometer," <i>Zeitschrift fur Instrumentenkunde</i> 12 (1892): 1-12.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Thermometers and Hygrometers
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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.317725
label: accession number
content: 231230
label: catalog number
content: 317725
objectType: label: Object Name
content: psychrometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 7/8 in x 18 1/8 in x 4 5/8 in; 12.3825 cm x 46.0375 cm x 11.7475 cm