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Keywords: meteorology, Julien P. Friez, Göttingen, weather instrument, antique science, thermometer, scientific instrument
Hygrometer/thermometer with a white enamel dial, marked "Lambrecht’s Polymeter – Centigrade
National Museum of American History: Lambrecht’s Polymeter is a multi-purpose meteorological instrument consisting of a mercury thermometer for temperature (missing in this example) and a hair hygrometer for humidity. The inscriptions on the face of this example read "LAMBRECHT’S POLYMETER" and "JULIEN P. FRIEZ / Meteorological Instruments and Apparatus BALTIMORE (Md.) U.S.A."
Wilhelm Lambrecht (1834-1904), a mechanical, optical and meteorological instrument maker in Göttingen, designed this type of hair hygrometer around 1880. The firm remains in business, advertising as "The Weather Specialists Since 1859."
Ref: “The Polymeter” in Julien P. Friez, Catalogue of Meteorological Instruments and Apparatus (Baltimore, 1893), pp. 35-37.
National Museum of American History
Id Number:PH.314562Accession Number:204612Catalog Number:314562
9 1/2 x 3 1/8 in. (24.1 x 7.9 cm.)
Category: 26809
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