Barograph (replica)
date: label: date made
content: 1961
name: label: maker
content: Eichner, Laurits Christian
notes: label: Description
content: Photographic barographs came into use in the middle years of the nineteenth century. This example is allegedly a replica of one made by Jean Adrien Deleuil, a scientific instrument maker in Paris. L. C. Eichner, the craftsman who made it for the Museum, wrote: “I have aimed at making and instrument such as might be made in a university laboratory shop; designed by the professor and made by him and his mechanic. In other words: with a somewhat ‘home-made’ look.”
label: Description
content: Ref: “Barograph or Self-Recording Mercurial Barometer,” in James J. Hicks, <i>Illustrated & Descriptive Catalogue of Standard, Self-Recording, and Other Meteorological Instruments</i> (London, n.d.), p. 7.
label: Description
content: Robert P. Multhauf, “The Introduction of Self-Registering Meteorological Instruments,” <i>Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology</i> (Washington, D.C., 1961).
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.319425
label: accession number
content: 237913
label: catalog number
content: 319425
objectType: label: Object Name
content: barograph, photographic
label: Object Name
content: barograph (replica)
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: metal pipe: 10 1/8 in x 3 1/2 in x 3 1/4 in; 25.7175 cm x 8.89 cm x 8.255 cm
label: Measurements
content: lens with stand: 6 1/4 in x 4 1/4 in; 15.875 cm x 10.795 cm