Headquarters Instruments Branch / Division People, Downsview ca 1985


Notes:

1.  The part of MSC responsible for development and maintenance of meteorological instruments (Instruments Branch or Instruments Division) is  under-represented in these photos.  The photos below showing some of the people who worked on instruments is an attempt to rectify this.  More photos will be added as we find them.

2.  A new section under History of Canadian Meteorology is planned which will show photos of the instruments themselves, from historic to modern.

3.  Beyond what you see below are other areas in these collections where meteorological instruments are featured prominently:



Pat Connor (left) and Tom Hacking are seen here with the visually
impressive photographic thermograph, used in the Canadian weather
service between 1880 and 1940. The instrument records dry and wet bulb
temperatures photographically. On the left side of the table is the
thermograph's clock drum and on the right are a light source, a
condensor, a mirror and a lens.
Pat Connor,left, and Tom Hacking are seen here with a long shaft wind vane and cup anemometer (right).  Both ancient weather instruments were used in the service between 1876 and 1936.  Inset is a portrait of Professor George Kingston, first director of the Canadian Meteorological Service, who designed both instruments.

On the optical side of the thermograph table Tom Hacking (left) and
Pat Connor adjust the position of one of the long, thin, bent-at-right-angles thermometers.
Tom Hacking and Pat Connor with more instruments

Pat Connor & Tom Hacking
Pat Connor & Tom Hacking

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R (Rudi) H Salewski
R (Rudi) H Salewski

Bob Wilson
Bob Wilson

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Fred Koster with a Cambell-Stokes Sunshine Recorder

photo by K McVeigh, EC
Zephyr sent an interviewer to learn something about the work of an instrument calibration technician. Here's how Nellie Rochacewich answered the questions.

Read the complete interview here (Zephyr Mar-April 1985 p. 6)

During the interview, Nellie revealed that she has also written or co-authored detailed test reports such as the Evaluation of the Aero Mechanism Altimeter Setting Indicator and The Evaluation of the OTA Tokyo Aneroid Barometer. The drawings were all done by Nellie herself who, before assuming her present occupation, was a blueprint draughts-person.

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