Official in charge of the United States Weather Bureau Fort Worth station, J. H. Ferguson, holding a mercury vapor tube alongside a pencil to show off its minuteness. The Weather Bureau is trying out a new machine for determining the height of clouds in daytime. The machine called a "ceilometer" is installed at the weather bureau station at Municipal Airport. Mr. Ferguson is wearing three piece suit.
Item: Weather Bureau
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Original image part of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection, University of Texas at Arlington Libraries. Identifier: AR406-6-380
Identifier: 20026230
Title: Weather Bureau
Description: Official in charge of the United States Weather Bureau Fort Worth station, J. H. Ferguson, holding a mercury vapor tube alongside a pencil to show off its minuteness. The Weather Bureau is trying out a new machine for determining the height of clouds in daytime. The machine called a "ceilometer" is installed at the weather bureau station at Municipal Airport. Mr. Ferguson is wearing three piece suit.
Date Created: 1946-01-06
Coverage: 1940s
Category: Government, Labor and Politics, Medicine, Nature, Science and Technology
Subject Term: United States Weather Bureau, Weather forecasting, Meteorology, Ferguson, J.H., Ceilometer, Meteorological instruments
Location: Fort Worth (Tex.)
Collection: Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection
Type: Still Image
Format: JPG
Publisher: University of Texas at Arlington Libraries
Rights Holder: University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, Special Collections
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Title: Weather Bureau
Description: Official in charge of the United States Weather Bureau Fort Worth station, J. H. Ferguson, holding a mercury vapor tube alongside a pencil to show off its minuteness. The Weather Bureau is trying out a new machine for determining the height of clouds in daytime. The machine called a "ceilometer" is installed at the weather bureau station at Municipal Airport. Mr. Ferguson is wearing three piece suit.
Date Created: 1946-01-06
Coverage: 1940s
Category: Government, Labor and Politics, Medicine, Nature, Science and Technology
Subject Term: United States Weather Bureau, Weather forecasting, Meteorology, Ferguson, J.H., Ceilometer, Meteorological instruments
Location: Fort Worth (Tex.)
Collection: Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection
Type: Still Image
Format: JPG
Publisher: University of Texas at Arlington Libraries
Rights Holder: University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, Special Collections
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