Mercury Barometer
name: label: maker
content: Tonnelot, Jules
notes: label: Description
content: Over the years, enormous ingenuity has been directed to the problem of designing a barometer that could be safely moved from one place to another. One solution was to have the cistern full during transport, and mechanically expanded to a proper size for actual use. This example is of that sort. The “Tonnelot à Paris” inscription refers to Jules Tonnelot, a Parisian who showed his meteorological instruments at the international exhibitions of 1878, 1889 and 1900.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
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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: U.S. Signal Corps
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.308187
label: accession number
content: 70852
label: catalog number
content: 308187
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Mercury Barometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 35 in; 88.9 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 36 5/8 in x 3 7/8 in; 93.0275 cm x 9.8425 cm