Winlock & Huddleston Psychrometer
National Museum of American History

Winlock & Huddleston Psychrometer

Huddleston, John S. F. · 1873

overall: 14 3/4 in x 8 1/2 in x 4 in; 37.465 cm x 21.59 cm x 10.16 cm
National Museum of American History
CC0 — Public Domain
National Museum of American History

Patent model for Joseph Winlock and John S F. Huddleston, "Psychrometer," U.S. Patent 149,176 (March 31, 1874). Joseph Winlock was a professor of astronomy at Harvard College, and John S. F. Huddleston was a thermometer and barometer maker in Boston. The wet bulb thermometer is mounted on a brass plate that is marked "HUDDLESTON BOSTON" and graduated every degree Fahrenheit from +10 to +115. The dry bulb thermometer is missing.

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