Object Details
- Author
- Unknown
- Subject
- Abbot, C. G (Charles Greeley) b. 1872
- Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
- Mount Wilson Observatory
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- This image is also Neg. # 3805.
- Summary
- Astrophysicist Charles Greeley Abbot (fifth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1928-1944) carrying the house-fly vane radiometer afoot up the Mount Wilson, California trail. Abbot made this instrument in Pasadena, California, but carried it by hand up the trail so as to not risk breaking it. The radiometer could measure a candle's heat at 3000 miles.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7005, Box 186, Folder 4
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- c. 1930?
- Standard number
- 94-12604
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Person, candid
- Physical description
- Color: Black and White; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Person, candid; Medium: Photographic print
- Place
- California
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Observing (field) stations
- Secretaries
- Observatories
- Secretariats
- Astrophysics
- Inventions
- Record ID
- siris_sic_8277
