Bolometer
notes: label: Description
content: Dr. H. H. Kimball (1862-1944) of the U.S. Weather Bureau was detailed to the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in 1905 and, according to official reports, gained valuable experience in the use of the bolometer. He may have used this example.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Herbert Harvey Kimball (1862-1944),” Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 26 (1945): 188-191.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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.322319
label: catalog number
content: 322319
label: accession number
content: 247582
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bolometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 5/16 in x 11 5/8 in x 2 3/8 in; 8.41375 cm x 29.5275 cm x 6.0325 cm