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Oat-beard type hygrometer in fishskin case, unsigned, English, 1771-1830. Designed based on Robert Hooke's description of 1664.
Details
- Category:
- Meteorology
- Object Number:
- 1893-116
- Materials:
- brass (copper, zinc alloy), fishskin, glass, leather, steel (metal), velvet
- type:
- hygrometer
- taxonomy:
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- furnishing and equipment
- measuring device - instrument
- credit:
- Basedon, H.
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