Radiosonde
notes: label: Description
content: Astin-Curtis type radiosonde with a metal frame containing elements for temperature (bimetallic), pressure (aneroid), and humidity (goldbeater's skin), and an electrically driven switching disk. Allen Varley Astin (1904-1984) was a physicist who joined the staff of the National Bureau of Standards in 1930 and served as director from 1952 to 1969. L. F. Curtis was a physicist who joined the Bureau in 1926.
label: Description
content: Ref: Walter Sullivan, “Allen V. Astin is Dead at 79, Headed Bureau of Standards,” New York Times (Feb. 8, 1984), p. B14.
label: Description
content: L. F. Curtiss and A. V. Astin, "High Altitude Stratosphere Observations," Science 83 (1936): 4.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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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.319830
label: catalog number
content: 319830
label: accession number
content: 240347
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Radiosonde
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in x 7 1/2 in x 3 in; 8.89 cm x 19.05 cm x 7.62 cm