Change over time

Studied from its original page

Climograph (hythergraph)

climograph (Griffith Taylor) · hythergraph (catalog S232 alias)

Made by
Griffith Taylor
Year
1915-1916
Field
Meteorology and climate
Kind
Data display
Room
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What it shows

A place's twelve months drawn as one closed loop that relates wet-bulb temperature and humidity.

How it is read

Recognise a place by the shape and slope of its loop, and compare it with the shaded reference loop and the named corners.

Not shown here: its rights are not cleared

See the original page — Fig. 226, p. 293 (archive leaf n310)

Test A passes (published 1920) but test B fails: Taylor died in 1963 (B would run to 2033).

The data it needs

  • entity identity · categorical
  • period order · ordinal · month (cyclic)
  • x position · quantitative · % relative humidity
  • y position · quantitative · F wet-bulb

Built in 4 steps, as its maker described

not opened

Skeleton drawing, not the original plate

17 other forms share this skeleton

Source

Taylor 1916, The control of settlement by humidity and temperature, Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology Bulletin 14

Attribution less certain: contested, or no single inventor recorded

Searches, not citations

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