Aneroid Barometer
date: label: date made
content: 1922
notes: label: Description
content: This is a brass instrument, 5¼ inches diameter and 2½ inches deep. The inscriptions on the metal face read “Stormoguide” and “COMPENSATED FOR TEMPERATURE” and “Tycos” and “UNITED STATES COPYRIGHT 1922 TAYLOR INSTRUMENT COMPANIES, ROCHESTER, N.Y.” The pressure scale around the circumference reads from 27.5 to 31.5 inches of mercury, in fifths of an inch. Letters around the scale, running from A to K, correlate with various weather conditions.
label: Description
content: An altitude scale on the back of the instrument extends from 0 to 3500 feet, and reads: “ROTATE THIS PLATE UNTIL THE ARROW ON THE CASE POINTS TO THE ALTITUDE OF YOUR LOCALITY PATENTED AUGUST 18-1914”
label: Description
content: The Stormoguide was based on a design developed by Francis E. Collinson of London, England. It was widely promoted for domestic and amateur use.
label: Description
content: The Taylor Instrument Companies began operating, as such, 1904, and introduced the Tycos trade mark in 1908. It obtained a copyright on the term Stormoguide in 1922, and advertised it as a simplified barometer that indicated weather probabilities for 12 to 24 hours in advance. It gave this example to the Smithsonian in 1923.
label: Description
content: Ref: Francis E. Collinson, “Barometer,” U.S. Patent 1,107,496 (1914).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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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.308170
label: catalog number
content: 308170
label: accession number
content: 70532
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Aneroid Barometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 3/4 in x 3 in x 5 1/4 in; 14.605 cm x 7.62 cm x 13.335 cm