English: Photograph of silver-disk pyrheliometers and a pyranometer outside the Smithsonian Institution Building (SIB), the "Castle," c. 1931-1940. Fifth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1928-1944), Charles Greeley Abbot developed and used these instruments during his research at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
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