Aneroid Barometer
notes: label: Description
content: This is a brass instrument, 4¾ inches diameter and 1¾ inches deep. The white face is marked “Aneroid Barometer” and “1634” and “STORMY Much Rain Rain CHANGE Fair Set Fair VERY DRY.” The pressure scale extends from 22.5 to 31.5 inches of mercury, read to twentieths of an inch. There are two pointers so that one can determine if the pressure is rising or falling.
label: Description
content: The U.S. Weather Bureau transferred this to the Smithsonian in 1954.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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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.314548
label: accession number
content: 204612
label: catalog number
content: 314548
objectType: label: Object Name
content: aneroid barometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/4 in x 1 7/8 in x 4 7/8 in; 15.875 cm x 4.7625 cm x 12.3825 cm