Aneroid Barometer
date: label: date made
content: 1908-1950
name: label: maker
content: Short & Mason
notes: label: Description
content: This small brass instrument, 2¾ inches diameter, was manufactured by Short & Mason in London and sold by the Taylor Instrument Companies in the United States. The U.S. Weather Bureau transferred it to the Smithsonian in 1954.
label: Description
content: The silvered face is marked “Compensated” and “No 1016” and “U.S. WEATHER BUREAU” and “SM / LONDON” and “Tycos,” The pressure scale around the circumference of the face reads from 28 to 31 inches of mercury, in .02 inches. A sticker on the back of the case reads “DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE / 9369 WBZ.”
label: Description
content: The Taylor Instrument Companies began operating, as such, 1904, and introduced the Tycos trade mark in 1908.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
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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. Weather Bureau
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.314530
label: accession number
content: 204612
label: catalog number
content: 314530
objectType: label: Object Name
content: barometer, aneroid
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 7/8 in x 7/8 in x 2 11/16 in; 9.8425 cm x 2.2225 cm x 6.82625 cm