Secretary Abbot Carrying the Radiometer up Mount Wilson

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Object Details

Author

Unknown

Subject

Abbot, C. G (Charles Greeley) b. 1872

Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

Mount Wilson Observatory

Notes

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

Date

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

Data Source

Smithsonian Archives - History Div

Topic

Observing (field) stations

Secretaries

Observatories

Secretariats

Astrophysics

Inventions

Metadata Usage

Usage conditions apply

Record ID

siris_sic_8277