nephoscope eyepiece stand
Date20th-mid 20th Century
Inventory Number1997-1-1806
ClassificationStand
Subject
User
Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory
1885-present
Cultural Region
Place of Origin
Dimensions118.3 × 45 × 18 cm (46 9/16 × 17 11/16 × 7 1/16 in.)
Material
DescriptionA bamboo tripod on a rolling wooden base, designed to support a nephoscope eyepiece. The tripod has a brass rod crosspiece attached, with three tubular brass accessories attached to it with string.
Signedunsigned
Inscribedtaped label: Highe eyepiece 27 sec; low eyepiece 41 sec; tag: 77 bis stand for
FunctionThe eyepiece stand for a nephoscope (an instrument that measures the position and velocity of clouds).
ProvenanceFrom the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory, Nov. 1958.
Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory
Date: circa 1880
Object number: 1998-1-0863
Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory
Date: ca. 1900-1930
Object number: 1998-1-0877
Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory
Date: ca. 1890-1940
Object number: 1998-1-0570
Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory
Date: circa 1900
Object number: 1998-1-0615
Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory
Date: late 19th-mid 20th Century
Object number: 1998-1-0287
Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory
Date: late 19th-early 20th Century
Object number: 1998-1-0750
Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory
Date: late 19th-early 20th Century
Object number: 1998-1-0753
Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory
Date: early 20th-mid 20th Century
Accessories: case; lever; wrench; brass container (grease?); eye piece; 2 metal round bits; slide (1)
Object number: 1998-1-0866
Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory
Date: late 19th-early 20th Century
Object number: 1998-1-0751
Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory
Date: 1886
Accessories: part of 1996-1-0144a, b.
Object number: 1996-1-0184
Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory
Date: circa 1892
Object number: 1998-1-0418b