Mercury Barometer
date: label: date made
content: around 1950
name: label: maker
content: Carl J. Ulrich
notes: label: Description
content: Carl J. Ulrich (ca. 1873-1955) was born in Germany, came to the U.S. at a young age, worked as a teacher, and manufactured apparatus. A metal tag at the top of this barometer reads “CARL J. ULRICH / SCIENTIFIC APPARATUS / PATENT NO. 2472735 MINNEAPOLIS.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Carl J. Ulrich, “Barometric Instrument,” U.S. Patent 2,472,735 (1949).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Minnesota, Minneapolis
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of John Opem
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2003.0157.01
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0157.01
label: accession number
content: 2003.0157
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Mercury Barometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 98.5 cm x 8 cm x 6 cm; 38 3/4 in x 3 1/8 in x 2 3/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 38 1/2 in x 3 1/8 in x 2 1/2 in; 97.79 cm x 7.9375 cm x 6.35 cm