Wheel Barometer
date: label: date made
content: ca 1839-1854
name: label: maker
content: Dominic Fagioli & Son
notes: label: Description
content: Invented in the 1660s by Robert Hooke, the "curator of experiments" in the new Royal Society of London, the “wheel” or “banjo” barometer has a tube that is bent into a J shape; a float, sitting on the shorter end of the tube, connects with a circular scale that is large and easily read. Barometers of this sort have long been popular for domestic use. This example is marked “D. Fagioli & Son, 39 Warner St Clerkenwell” and was made in London, perhaps in the 1840s. The dial reads from 28 to 31 inches of mercury. In addition to the barometer itself, there is a twisted gut hygrometer, a spirit thermometer, and a convex mirror. The Taylor Instrument companies gave it to the Smithsonian in 1923.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Barometers
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content: Measuring & Mapping
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Taylor Instrument Companies
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.308173
label: accession number
content: 70532
label: catalog number
content: 308173
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Barometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 37 1/2 in x 10 3/8 in x 2 5/16 in; 95.25 cm x 26.3525 cm x 5.87375 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in box: 9 1/4 in x 44 1/4 in x 17 1/4 in; 23.495 cm x 112.395 cm x 43.815 cm