Aneroid Barometer
date: label: date made
content: late 19th century
name: label: maker
content: /Alvergniat Freres
notes: label: Description
content: Brass instrument, 5½ inches diameter and 2¼ inches deep, with a printed paper face that reads “BAROMÈTRE DE PRÉCISON / POUR STATIONS MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES” and “ALVERGNIAT FRES 10. R. de la Sorbonne” and “BREVETÉ S.G.D.G.” The latter indicates that this instrument, or some part thereof, was covered by a French patent. The pressure scale reads from 700 to 790 cm of mercury, by centimeters. There are also words for weather conditions, in French.
label: Description
content: This came to the Smithsonian in 1910, a transfer from the U.S. Department of the Interior. It had probably been collected by the short-lived federal Bureau of Education.
label: Description
content: Alvergniat Frères were in business in Paris from 1858 until after 1900, manufacturing a wide range of scientific instruments.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Département de Ville-de-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. Department of the Interior
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.261256
label: accession number
content: 51116
label: catalog number
content: 261256
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Aneroid Barometer
label: Object Name
content: barometer, aneroid
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/2 in x 2 1/2 in x 5 1/2 in; 16.51 cm x 6.35 cm x 13.97 cm