Digital collections
Description
Figure 38. Hygrometer register, built to record variations in relative humidity. The hygrometer is built on principles discovered by Horace Benedict Saussure in 1783 and uses the changes in length of human hair and animal hair with humidity to derive relative humidity. The exact age of this recording instrument isunknown. (Image credit: Oceanographic Museum of Monaco | Y. Berard)
Credit
Oceanographic Museum of Monaco
Photographer
Y. Berard
Category
Voyage to Inner Space
History of Oceanography Collection
The Early Instruments - Collections of the Oceanographic Museum at Monaco
Supplemental Material, Demonstration Equipment, and Meteorological Instruments
Keywords
Oceanography