Authors: Ben Ruhe
Date Submitted: August 31, 1998
Article Type: Journal

Among the more than 150 objects from Blue Hill now housed at Harvard’s Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments are kites and apparatus used with them. A partial list of this holding, as compiled by John Conover in his book on the observatory, follows: -E D. Archibald’s kite. Cloth, employed in experiments with anemometers, 1882-84 -Kite meteorograph. Pressure, temperature, relative humidity, and wind speed. Made by S.P. Fergusson. -Dines kite meteorograph, 1902. Pressure and temperature. Wooden case, cloth cover. -Automatic camera used to take pictures from kites. Made for A.L. Rotch by L. Gaumont and Cie, Paris. May be set to take pictures from 80 minutes to 2 hours after start of timer.

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