Recording Barometer
notes: label: Description
content: This type of recording barometer was designed in 1874 by H. L (sometimes termed A. L.) Foreman, a young private in the U.S. Army assigned to the Signal Service. The Signal Service displayed an example at the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, and the form was still in use in the 1940s. A sticker on this example reads "Department of Agriculture / 9307-WB-Z.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Annual Report of the Chief Signal-Officer to the Secretary of War for the Year 1877 (Washington, D.C., 1877), p. 511.
label: Description
content: U.S. Weather Bureau, Report of the Chief of the Weather Bureau [for] 1891-’92 (Washington, D.C., 1893), pp. 43-44.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.314525
label: accession number
content: 204612
label: catalog number
content: 314525
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Barometer, Recording
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 1/4 in x 8 in x 16 1/2 in; 31.115 cm x 20.32 cm x 41.91 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/8 in x 16 in x 12 5/8 in; 20.6375 cm x 40.64 cm x 32.0675 cm