Nephoscope
notes: label: Description
content: Carl Gotfried Fineman, a German scientist, designed the nephoscope for observing the altitude, direction and velocity of clouds. The U.S. Weather Bureau transferred this unsigned example to the Smithsonian in 1904.
label: Description
content: Ref: C. G. Fineman, in Zeitsch. fűr Instrum. 6 (1886): 206-208.
label: Description
content: William E. K. Middleton, Catalog of Meteorological Instruments in the National Museum of History and Technology (Washington, D.C., 1969), pp. 94-95.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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.230004
label: catalog number
content: 230004
label: accession number
content: 42625
objectType: label: Object Name
content: nephoscope
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 3/8 in x 10 in; 6.0325 cm x 25.4 cm