A.

Psychrometers

The hygrometer is a device for measuring the relative humidity of air. While there
are many physical effects dependent on the amount of water vapor in the air which
have been used to construct hygrometers, the three below are psychrometers that use
the evaporative cooling of a thermometer bulb. Once the temperature of this bulb and
a similar dry bulb are known, the relative humidity can be found using tables.

The hygrometer at the middle, by J. A. Seitz of Boston, has a built-in table. When
this table is elaborated into a nomagraph, the device is called a Hygrodeik. At the left
is a hygrometer marked "U. S. Weather Bureau", and the instrument at the right is
Mason's Hygrometer, made by Green of New York. The wick around the wet bulb
was supplied with water from the bottom of a [missing] glass tube, which was held by
the two clips in the center of the instrument.