General Information

Serial #

N/A

Part Number

1

Total Parts

2

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

ferrous metal spindle with non-ferrous metal gear/ non-ferrous metal gear with synthetic cap/ synthetic label/ leather? gaskets

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length

11.0 cm

Width

8.0 cm

Height

N/A

Thickness

N/A

Weight

N/A

Diameter

N/A

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Meteorology

Category

Miscellaneous

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

Unknown

Country

Unknown

State/Province

Unknown

City

Unknown

Context

Country

Canada

State/Province

Unknown

Period

after 1970

Canada

Part of a large collection of meteorological instruments acquired from the Meteorological Service of Canada (previously Atmospheric Environment Service) by the CSTM since 1967. MSC is the government agency responsible for collecting and disseminating meteorological data and forecasts in Canada. It was founded in 1871 in Toronto where it is still headquartered. The MSC was originally on the University of Toronto downtown campus but moved to Downsview in 1971 on land owned by UofT. The headquarters houses laboratories, research facilities and calibration and instrument maintenance facilities (now largely contracted out).

Function

A set of replacement parts to convert a measuring instrument, probably for wind, from measuring knots to measuring kilometres.

Technical

After 1970 the Canadian government began implementing the metric measurement system in this country, including its departments such as the Meteorological Branch / Atmospheric Environment Service. This conversion kit indicates that in some cases the conversion of meteorological instruments measuring in Imperial units were converted to measuring metric units, in this case knots to kilometres.

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

white lettering on label reads 'KILOMETRES 1/10 1/100'/ red numbers 0 to 9 on synthetic gear cap

Missing

unknown

Finish

plated and gold coloured spindle/ gold coloured gear with white synthetic cap/ brown and green gaskets/ colourless transparent label

Decoration

N/A