Aneroid Barometer
date: label: date made
content: 1845-1923
notes: label: Description
content: Lucien Vidie was a Frenchman who made the first satisfactory metallic barometer in 1843, and obtained his first patents in 1844. For the mechanism he used a corrugated diaphragm supported by 33 helical springs encased in a strong evacuated metal box. This example is of that form, but probably not of Vidie’s manufacture. The face is marked “BARÓMETRO ANEROIDE” as well as “TEMPESTAD,” “LLÚVIA Ó VIENTO,” “VARIABLE,” “BUEN TIEMP,” and “CONSTANTE.” The scale extends from 17.5 to 31.5 inches of mercury, and from 68 to 80 cm of mercury. The Taylor Instrument Companies donated it to the Smithsonian in 1923.
label: Description
content: Ref.: W.E.K. Middleton, <The History of the Barometer</i> (Baltimore, 1964), pp. 400-406.
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.308166
label: catalog number
content: 308166
label: accession number
content: 70532
objectType: label: Object Name
content: barometer, aneroid
label: Object Name
content: Aneroid Barometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5.5 cm x 14.5 cm; 2 5/32 in x 5 23/32 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/4 in x 5 3/4 in; 5.715 cm x 14.605 cm