IMAGE
Device for measuring wood moisture Item Info
- Title:
- Device for measuring wood moisture
- Photographer:
- Swan, Kenneth D. (Kenneth Dupee), 1887-1970
- Date Created:
- 1935
- Description:
- Another device for measuring wood moisture. This Blinkometer invented by M.E. Dunlap of the Forest Products Laboratory for studying the moisture content of lumber is being found very useful in forest fire research. It is only during extremely critical years that logs of this size dry out sufficiently in the center so that they burn completely. Pictured is George Jemison.
- Location:
- Bonner County Priest River Experimental Station Clear Cut inflammability station
- Latitude:
- 48.34416667
- Longitude:
- -116.8413889
- Moscow Number:
- 3025
- Forest Service Number:
- 309745
- Source:
- The sources for the photos in this collection were as follows: Priest River Experimental Forest, Moscow Foresty Sciences Lab, USDA-Forest Service Region 1 archive, University of Montana Library Gisborne Collection, and Ms. Susan Marsh
- Source Identifier:
- FireAlbum11
- Type:
- Image;StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Device for measuring wood moisture", Experimental Forest and Savenac Nursery Archive, University of Idaho Library Digital Collections, https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/expforest/items/expforsav338.html
Rights
- Rights:
- Material produced by the United States Forest Service and is in Public Domain. For more information, please contact University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives Department at libspec@uidaho.edu.
- Standardized Rights:
- https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/