Accession No
4564
Brief Description
weather forecaster card dial, by D. and K. Bartlett, English, 1/2 20th Century
Origin
England
Maker
Bartlett, D. and K.
Class
meteorology
Earliest Date
1900
Latest Date
1950
Inscription Date
Material
paper (card); metal (white metal)
Dimensions
diameter 114mm
Special Collection
Provenance
Purchased on 28/04/1996.
Inscription
‘THE DAILY WEATHER GUIDE
COPYRIGHT BY
D. & K. BARTLETT
THE LONG RANGE
WEATHER EXPERTS’ (on front)
Description Notes
Weather forecaster card dial, by D. & K. Bartlett, English, 1/2 20th century.
Consisting of a smaller disc set over a larger disc. Larger disc carries information about different types of clouds, smaller disc carries instructions for use of disc and has a cut-out section which reveals the necessary information about the weather. Back of object carries advertisement for ‘Owbridge’s lung tonic for coughs and colds’.
Condition good (some foxing to edge of lower disc); complete
References
Allison Ksiazkiewicz; 'Weather Forecasting'; Explore Whipple Collections online article; Whipple Museum of the History of Science; University of Cambridge: https://www.whipplemuseum.cam.ac.uk/explore-whipple-collections/meteorology/weather-forecasting
Events
Description
This pocket forecaster was made by the meteorologists D. & K. Bartlett in about 1938. Rotating the outer disc according to the present cloud type and wind direction brings the appropriate forecast to the window on the inner disc.
In their booklet ‘Signpost to the weather’, published in 1949, D. & K. Bartlett claimed to have been ‘Professional Weather Consultants and Long-Range Weather Specialists’ since 1935.
29/04/2008
Created by: Dr. Anita McConnell on 29/04/2008
FM:40246
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