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Place of origin
Date

Sea-surface temperature bucket, Crawford type

1960-1970

Vaisala RS92 radiosonde used in climate research

2010

Open scale barograph by Short & Mason Ltd.

1944

Whirling Psychrometer, 1950-1953

1950-1953

Marine thermometer by Negretti and Zambra

1890

Sectioned Metspec MET 20 Radiation Shield

2010

CS215 temperature and relative humidity sensor

2010

Standard Five-inch Rain Gauge

1940-1950

Earth thermometer with bent stem, c. 1925.

1925

Wet and dry bulb psychrometer for humidity measurement

1960-1970

Marine barometer by R.B. Bate

mid-1800s

Robinson cup anemometer by Munro

1926-1932

Meteorological Office aneroid barometer Mark I

1940

Sea temperature bucket, Met Ref 21580, 1997.

1997

Tropical sunshine recorder Mk IIIA by Casella

1959

Portable thermometer screen

1925

Clockwork & drum

Sunshine recorder bowls, 1891

1891

Clockwork motor and shutter assembly from Dobson Spectrophotometer

Barometer, Kew pattern, for use at meteorological stations

1914

Pilot balloon theodolite

Admiral FitzRoy type Barometer, 1876-1884

1876-1884

Ice core drill used by the British Antarctic Survey, 1985

1985

Standard pattern Meteorological Office rain gauge, 1998

1998

George James Symons designed rain gauge, with bottle, pail and measuring cylinder, 1871

1871

Diplex maximum and minimum thermometer, British, 1986

1986

Pair of mounting jigs for air thermometers

Gordon Dobson’s original ozone spectrograph

1924

Bimetallic actinograph Mk III

1949

Eyepieces for viewing sunshine recorder cards

Prototype visibility meter, circa 1911

1911

Visibility meter

circa 1941

Balloon height barograph by R. Fuess

1931-1940

Alidade for cloud heights

1935

6-pronged comb for Besson nephoscope

Visibility meter with rubber eye cap

1940-1949

Nephoscope, ex Kew Observatory

Mason's wet and dry bulb hygrometer

1850

Ordinary mercury-in-glass thermometer in glazed wood case

1830

Alluard's dew point hygrometer

1877

M.O. Balloon psychrometer

1945

Electric hygrometer element in sealed glass tube

1944

Prototype of Met Office windspeed & direction indicator no.40154. 5 vane swivelling head

Mercury-in-glass thermometer in sturdy brass surround

1820-1850

Eppley pyranometer

1955

Boxwood slide rule

1860-1880

Model, enlarged, of balloon meteorograph

1910-1920

Packet of goldbeater's skin

Balloon filler

Monocular reading microscope