Anemometer cup wheel
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- OBJECT TYPE
- 3 CUP/HEMISPHERICAL
- DATE
- 1926–1942
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1987.0759.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Meteorological Service of Canada
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- Canada
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- ALUMINUM? CUPS, METAL HUB
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- N/A
- Width
- 35.1 cm
- Height
- 12.0 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Meteorology
- Category
- Surface wind speed & direction measurement
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Environment CA
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- 1930'S TO EARLY 1940'S
- Canada
-
A FORM OF ANEMOMETER CUPWHEEL MADE & USED BY THE CANADIAN METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE ON ITS OWN PATTERSON ANEMOVANE/ANEMOMETER 45B WHICH WAS DEVELOPED IN THE 1920'S & USED BY THE SERVICE AT LEAST INTO THE 1980'S. - Function
-
PART OF ANENOMETER THAT IS ROTATED BY WIND FOR MEASUREMENT OF WIND SPEED. - Technical
-
IN 1926 JOHN PATTERSON OF THE CANADIAN METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE INTRODUCED THE 3 CUP ANEMOMETER; THIS ORIGINAL STYLE OF HEMISPHERICAL CUP WAS SUPPLANTED BY THE CONICAL CUP SOMETIME BETWEEN 1942 & 1946 (SEE REF.). - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- N/A
- Missing
- From CA of 11/08/1993 by Tony Missio: Undetermined
- Finish
- METALLIC
- Decoration
- N/A
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Meteorological Service of Canada, Anemometer cup wheel, between 1926–1942, Artifact no. 1987.0759, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1987.0759.001/
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