From recorders to test sets, balloons to parachutes, dereelers to hygristors, specialized slide rules for correcting radiosonde readings to cigarette lighters and souvenir pens, radiosondes have spun off their own collection of associated artifacts.
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ACCESSORIES: Accessory Box, AN/AMT-9, Bendix-Friez
ACCESSORIES: Accessory Box, ML-3101/AMT-1
ACCESSORIES: Accessory Kit, Radiosonde AN/AMT-2A
ACCESSORIES: Accessory Kit, Radiosonde AN/AMT-2D
ADVERTISING: Card, Shell Oil
ADVERTISING: Burgess Battery Ad
ADVERTISING: Button Pin, Viz
ADVERTISING: Card, Shell Oil
ADVERTISING: Card, United Nations/Nabisco
ADVERTISING: Card, Wills' Cigarettes
ADVERTISING: Cigarette Lighter, Darex, Zippo
ADVERTISING: Coffee Cup
ADVERTISING: Game Card
ADVERTISING: Pen, Vaisala, Blue
ADVERTISING: Pen, Vaisala, White
BAG: Radiosonde Return, NOAA-NWS
BAG: Radiosonde Return, Weather Bureau
BALLOON FILLER: (Universal Balance), Wallace & Tiernan USN 1945
BALLOON FILLER: Brass
BALLOON FILLER: Mk8, MET 1776
BALLOON FILLER: Mk8, MET 29211
BALLOON FILLER: Old, Brass (on permanent loan to Brenner Pilot Balloon Collection, CSULB)
BALLOON FILLERS: Old Brass, Various
BALLOON: Nozzle, Custom Built, 10-Gram
BALLOON: Nozzle, ML-373/GM
BALLOON: Dewey and Almy ML-131
BALLOON, Dewy and Almy ML-160-A
BALLOON: Hirsch & Sons, ML-159-A
BALLOON- H. B. Hirsch & Sons, ML-160-A
BALLOON-Darex, 1200-Gram
BALLOON-Darex, ML-391/AM, 1260-Gram
BALLOON-Kaysam, 1000-Gram
BALLOON-Kaysam, ML-64-A, 30-Gram
BALLOON-NJ Balloon Mfg. 30-Gram
BALLOON: Darex, 300-Gram
BALLOON: Darex, ML-131A
BALLOON: Dewey and Almy, M-278-A (Antenna Lifter)
BALLOON: Kaymont, 100-Gram
BALLOON: Kaymont, 200-Gram
BALLOON: Kaymont, 30-Gram
BALLOON: Kaymont, ML-64-A, 30-Gram
BALLOON: Kaysam, 600-Gram
BALLOON: Kaysam, General Purpose, 26 km
BALLOON: Kaysam, ML-161-A, 100-Grams
BALLOON: Kaysam, ML-537-A/UM, 1250-Gram
BALLOON: Kaysam, ML-541/A/Daytime, 2300–Gram
BALLOON: Kaysam, ML-541A/AM, 2200-Gram
BALLOON: Kaysam, ML-635, 160-Gram
BALLOON: Kaysam, Molded Latex Product, 350-Gram
BALLOON: ML-160-A
BALLOON: ML-50-A
BALLOON: ML-541/A/AM (?)
BALLOON: Totex, 100-Gram
BALLOON: Totex 300-Gram
BALLOON: Totex 800-Gram
BALLOON: Unk. 1
BALLOON: Unk. 2
BALLOON: Unk. 3, (ML-541A/AM ?)
BALLOON: With Parachute (Postflight) 1
BALLOON: With Parachute (Postflight) 2
BALLOON: Remnants, as Typically Found in the Desert
BATTERY: BB-51, in Battery Pack BB-208/AMT, Willard Storage Battery Co.
BATTERY: BB-52, Willard Storage Battery Co.
BATTERY PACK: BB-208, Willard Storage Battery Co.
BATTERY- BA-292_AM, Wisco ESB
BATTERY- Radiosonde Viz, Raven Industries
BATTERY- RSB81Q5, Wisco ESB
BATTERY: 3511-200, Lockheed Martin, for Mark IIA GPS Sippican
BATTERY: BA-380/AMQ-9, Ray-O-Vac, ESB Inc.
BATTERY: BA-67 (Navy 19028), National Carbon Company Inc., from AN/AMQ-1
BATTERY: BA-852, Radiosonde, Viz
BATTERY: MAP-12060A, Eagle-Picher
BATTERY: MAP-12060B, Eagle-Picher
BATTERY: MDS, Viz
BATTERY: Radiosonde, Viz 1
BATTERY: Radiosonde, Viz 2
BATTERY: Radiosonde, Viz, Instructions
BATTERY: Unknown
BOX: Weather Bureau, for Carbon Disulfide, Used in AMT-12 Hypsometer
CALCULATOR: For Upper Winds, per Molchanov, calculated by Garbal I. 1972
CALCULATOR: Abaque, H. Morin FBU 1100A, Paris
CALCULATOR: Abaque, H. Morin X-735, Paris
CALCULATOR: Distance, Valentin, by Graphoplex
CALIBRATION TAPES: Typical
CAP: Naval Weather Service Association
CARD: Christmas, 1942
CARD: Educational, NASA
CARD: Educational, National Weather Service
CARD: Postal, DOI Research Laboratories
CARD: Postal, Naval Air Technical Training Center, Lakehurst
CARD: Postal, Launching a Recording Balloon, Germany circa 1910
CARD: Postal, from Vilho Vaisala, 1939
CHART: Adiabatic
CHART: Balloon Altitude, Pressure, Speed, and Direction (French)
CHART: Cloud, Viz
CHART: Identification, U.S. Air Force
CHART: Pilot Balloon Stations, US & Alaska, 1944
CHART: Weather and Instruments
CHART: Winds Aloft, 1954
CHART: Winds Aloft, 1955
CLINOMETER: Warren-Knight
CODE DISC: From AN/AMT-3 Radiosonde.
COMPUTER: Dewpoint, Felsenthal
COMPUTER: HUMIDITY - TEMPERATURE, Felsenthal
COMPUTER: PIBAL, Felsenthal
COMPUTER: Pressure Reduction, Sillcocks-Miller Co.
CONVERSION SCALE: Meteorological
DEREELER (Unwinder): IMet-54
DEREELER: Cord Inc.
DEREELER: Lockheed-Martin
DEREELER: Vaisala 1
DEREELER: Vaisala 2
DISPENSER: Dropsonde AMQ-31
FLASHLIGHT: Vaisala
FLYER: History of Viz Radiosondes
GENERATOR: Hydrogen, M-315-B, for Balloon M-278-A
HAIR ELEMENT: for hair hygrometer, Bendix-Friez
HAIR HYGROMETER: From AN/AMT-3 Radiosonde
HUMIDITY ELEMENT: Bendix/Friez, ML-379/AM, 1948
HUMIDITY ELEMENT: Bendix/Friez, ML-379/AM, 1957
HUMIDITY EVALUATION CHART: Northeastern Engineering
HUMIDITY EVALUATOR: Viz , Molded Insulation (3)
HUMIDITY EVALUATOR: Viz Accu-Lok
HUMIDITY SENSOR: Victory Engineering Corp.
HUMIDITY SENSOR: Viz, Accu-Lok
HYGROMETER ELEMENT: Electric, Northeastern Engineering
MEDAL, BRONZE: National Institute of Meteorology and Geophysics, Portugal, 1986
MUSIC-Upper Air Observations, Barbara Held
OSCILLATOR: Fix-Tuned RCA 6562
PARACHUTE: ML 132 (Paper), Federal Prison Industries
PARACHUTE: SSTL Meteorological Balloon Supply (China)
PARACHUTE: Totex, 300-Gram Payload
PARACHUTE: Viz (Plastic)
PARACHUTE: Unknown Manufacturer. Bi-Color, with Flight Train from RS-92 Sounding. Found in Southern Brazil.
PATCH: Navy Meteorological and Oceanographic
PIBAL LIGHT: BA-253/U with Bulb, Eagle-Picher Co.
PIBAL LIGHT: Manufacturer unknown, possibly Viz
PIBAL LIGHT: NEWS SN J375, 1983
PIBAL TIMER: NOAA
PIBAL TIMER: Warren-Knight (on permanent loan to Brenner Pilot Balloon Collection, CSULB)
PIBAL: Wind Speed Indicator, Unknown Mfgr.
PLOTTING BOARD: Meteorological, Navy 1966
POSTER: Radiosonde Observations, National Weather Service, 1980
POSTER: Weather balloon/radiosonde, Weather Bureau 1962
RECORD FORM: Radiosonde Flight (French) circa 1973
RECORDING BAROGRAPH: A. Haustetter, prior to 1918
REFLECTOR: Radar, Three-Piece, 2.5 Ounces
RETURN CARDS: British, early 1980s
SCALE: ML-301/TM, Sillcocks-Miller (2)
SHROUD: Balloon-Launch, see example here
SIGN: Director of Upper-Air Observations
SIGN: Radiosonde Laboratory (Hebrew)
SIGN: Upper-Air-Observations Division (Hebrew)
STAMP: Commemorative, Belgium Royal Meteorological Institute
STATIONERY: Israeli Meteorological Service
SUPPORT EQUIPMENT-Control, Radiosonde Dispenser C-8805/AMQ-25A
SUPPORT EQUIPMENT: Atmospheric Data Acquisition System, A.I.R. Inc.
SUPPORT EQUIPMENT: Power Supply and Battery Tester, NOAA/NWS, Type 1
SUPPORT EQUIPMENT: Power Supply and Battery Tester, NOAA/NWS, Type 2
SUPPORT EQUIPMENT: Power Supply and Battery Tester, Series 1, Power Pac Inc.
SUPPORT EQUIPMENT: Radiotheodolite WBRT-60, Remote Control Chassis, Servo Corp. of America
SUPPORT EQUIPMENT: Receptor, Radiosonde, AN/AMR-3
SUPPORT EQUIPMENT: Recorder AN/TMQ-5C , (Repurposed as Bedside Table)
SUPPORT EQUIPMENT: Signal Generator SG-21C/U, Elion Instruments Inc., for Radiosonde Receptor AN/FMQ-2 series
SUPPORT EQUIPMENT: Transceiver, RT-81/AM, from AN/GMQ-5 RAWIN Sounding Unit
TEMPERATURE ELEMENT: Bendix-Friez, ML-419/AMT-4
TEMPERATURE EVALUATOR, AN/AMQ-1D
TEMPERATURE EVALUATOR, Bendix Friez
TEMPERATURE EVALUATOR, Cosmotronix
TEMPERATURE EVALUATOR, Felsenthal (one of two)
TEMPERATURE EVALUATOR: Telex Communications Inc.
TESTER: Battery Tester, Viz (?)
![THERMISTOR: Type D-161872 [1952]](https://radiosondemuseum.org/wp-content/gallery/oddsends2/thermistortyped-161872.jpg "THERMISTOR: Type D-161872 [1952]")
THERMISTOR: Type D-161872 [1952]
TOY: “Weather Game”
TUBE: 1AD4, Raytheon
WEATHER GUIDES: Krick, Seven Regions