Burgess battery for radiosonde
Date: circa 1935
Inventory Number: 1998-1-0872c
Classification: Battery
Subject:
Maker: Burgess Battery Company (founded 1917)
User: Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory (1885-present)
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Place of Origin:
Dimensions:
7.5 x 4.3 x 3 cm (2 15/16 x 1 11/16 x 1 3/16 in.)
Material:
Description:
Small rectangular battery, No. V30FI, enclosed in cardboard covered with a dark green paper. Several patent numbers are enumerated on the front sticker, the latest of which is 1,839,498 dated from 1932. To see it, go to the following website.
Signedon sticker: BURGESS BATTERY CO.
Inscribedon sticker, front: INSTALL BY / Mar 24 38 [handwritten]
on sticker, back: No. V30F1 / Battery by / BURGESS
on sticker, back: No. V30F1 / Battery by / BURGESS
Curatorial RemarksWas deaccessioned from the collection for security reasons.
ProvenanceFrom the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Harvard University. Part of an instrument originally developed by the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory.