Barometric Scale
name: label: Maker
content: Hall
notes: label: Description
content: This barometric scale belonged to Joseph Henry, the physicist who served as founding Secretary of the Smithsonian. The “Hall / PHILADA” inscription is probably that of Solon W. Hall, an assistant at the Girard College Observatory in the early 1840s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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.312432
label: accession number
content: 64599
label: catalog number
content: 312432
objectType: label: Object Name
content: barometric scale
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: .4 cm x 11 cm x 11 cm; 5/32 in x 4 11/32 in x 4 11/32 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/16 in x 4 1/4 in x 4 3/8 in; .47625 cm x 10.795 cm x 11.1125 cm