blank rain and snow gauge charts
Date: ca. 1940-1966
Inventory Number: 1998-1-0605b
Classification: Chart
Dimensions:1 × 34.5 × 14.3 cm (3/8 × 13 9/16 × 5 5/8 in.)
Accessories: Instructions for installing charts, copyright 1947 (for tapered end charts on cylinders with and without slots, and for square-end charts on nonslotted cylinders only); small slip of paper in among charts, printed "CAUTION: your supply of charts is running low; reordering promptly will guarantee no interruption to records."
Description:
Bendix-Friez package containing many blank seven-day charts for "Fergusson Weighing Recorder Rain & Snow Gage [sic]" (Chart No. 1015-O Weekly).
The package is labeled, "Bendix Friez CHARTS FOR RECORDING INSTRUMENTS / MAKERS OF THE FINEST WEATHER INSTRUMENTS SINCE 1876 / FRIEZ INSTRUMENT DIVISION / BENDIX AVIATION CORPORATION / BALTIMORE 4 MD."
At one edge of the charts is printed, "PRINTED IN U.S.A. WHEN ORDERING BINDER FOR / THIS CHART SPECIFY NO 5-132 PART NO 104534 / CHART NO. 105-1 WEEKLY / FERGUSSON WEIGHING RECORDER RAIN & SNOW GAGE / BENDIX AVIATION CORPORATION / FRIEZ INSTRUMENT DIVISION / BALTIMORE, MARYLAND U.S.A. / STATION DATE"