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- OBJECT TYPE
- BALLOON/PATTERSON/FLASHING LIGHT
- DATE
- 1932
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1991.0071.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Unknown
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- Unknown
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General Information
- Serial #
- 312
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 3
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- PLASTIC CASING/ METAL INSTRUMENT CHASSIS/ METAL, SYNTHETIC & GLASS WORKING PARTS/ FIBRE CORD & WIRE COVERING
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 25.6 cm
- Width
- 11.8 cm
- Height
- 37.8 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Meteorology
- Category
- Upper air pressure, temperature & humidity measurement
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Unknown
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Northwest Territories
- Period
- 1932-1933 INTERNATIONAL POLAR YEAR
- Canada
-
INSTRUMENT USED AT ONE OF CANADA'S FOUR INTERNATIONAL POLAR YEAR STATIONS. IPY WAS ORGANIZED BY INT'L METEOROLOGICAL CONFERENCE OF DIRECTORS IN 1929 TO COMMEMORATE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF POLAR YEAR 1882-83. OBJECTIVE WAS TO ESTABLISH AS MANY STATIONS AS POSSIBLE IN POLAR REGIONS. - Function
-
DEVICE RAISED BY BALLOON INTO UPPER ATMOSPHERE TO READ TEMPERATURE & AIR PRESSURE; THESE READINGS WERE EXPRESSED BY FLASHING LIGHTS ATTACHED TO THE BALLOON, WHICH COULD BE SEEN BY OBSERVERS ON THE GROUND (2). - Technical
-
THIS IS PROBABLY A PATTERSON FLASHING LIGHT BALLOON METEOROGRAPH, ONE OF TWO TYPES OF METEOROGRAPH USED AT COPPERMINE. IT CONTAINED PRESSURE & TEMPERATURE ELEMENTS, BOTH OF WHICH CONTROLLED SMALL ELECTRIC LAMPS. THIS IS NEITHER A RECORDING INSTRUMENT LIKE MOST METEOROGRAPHS NOR A TRANSMITTING RADIOSONDE. - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- MACHINE STAMPED & HANDWRITTEN '312' ON CASING & CHASSIS/ HAND INCISED 'METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE/ OF CANADA/ COPPERMINE/ INT'L POLAR YEAR/ STATION'/ ATTACHED TAG WITH MAILING INSTRUCTIONS, ALSO STAMPED 'COPPERMINE/ POLAR-YEAR STN' & SIGNED IN RED INK 'R.C. Jacobson/ COPPERMINE/ 12 JULY 33'
- Missing
- From CA of 11/30/1993 by Tony Missio: Undetermined
- Finish
- TRANSPARENT YELLOW SYNTHETIC/ METALLIC & GALVANIZED PARTS
- Decoration
- N/A
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Unknown Manufacturer, Meteorograph, circa 1932, Artifact no. 1991.0071, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1991.0071.001/
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