WORK OF THE METEOROLOGICAL OFFICE [Main]


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  • Year: 1918
  • Runtime: 3 mins
  • Description: Three members of the section, all from different regiments, use gas cylinders from a portable trailer to inflate two small weather balloons, using a lead weight to determine the gas pressure of each balloon. One soldier uses a ranging instrument to track a balloon as another releases it. The third opens a standard weather-station box and takes readings from the hygrometer and the rain gauge. He fits the wind gauge and takes a reading from that also.
    The Meteorological Section, Royal Engineers, near Montreuil, Western Front, 16th October 1918.
  • Keywords: EFG1914 / World War I / British Army, Royal Engineers, Meteorological Section / equipment, British military - environmental: meteorological equipment / aircraft, British - balloon: weather balloon / 01/3(4-15).9 / Montreuil, Pas-de-Calais, France
  • Provider: Imperial War Museums
  • Rights: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Production company: Topical Film Company
  • Colour: Black & White
  • Sound: Without sound