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T50-1
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- 1935-11 (Creation)
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Photographed in November of 1935, William A. Bull, the volunteer record keeper for Tacoma's weather, posed with old and new instruments used to record weather data. Mr. Bull was employed as the chief draftsman for the Department of Public Works, but in his spare time he kept the official weather records for the city. The instrument high in the center is an old British make of aneroid barometer. Directly below is a simple glass barometer, such as used aboard ship on the first clippers. On the lower right is a recording barometer or barograph, atop the barograph is a thermograph that records temperature and to the barograph's left is the rain recording instrument. Mr. Bull maintained the equipment and took daily readings at 8a.m. and 4 p.m. Mr. Bull died February 6, 1940 at the age of 70, ending a long career in public service. He came to Tacoma in 1889 from Hartford, Connecticut. (T. Times 11/28/1935, pg. 3; 2/7/1940, pg. 1)
Bull, William A.; Barometers; Meteorological instruments--1930-1940;