Aneroid Barometer
date: label: date made
content: late 19th century
notes: label: Description
content: The inscriptions on the face of this barometer read “J.W. Queen & Co. PHILADELPHIA” and U.S.G.S. No 197.” The U.S. Geological Survey was established in 1879.
label: Description
content: The pressure scale around the circumference of the face of this barometer reads from 17.5 to 31 inches of mercury; the altitude scale reads from zero to 3,000 feet. Despite the inscription, this instrument was probably made in London. James W. Queen & Co., the Philadelphia firm that sold it, referred to it as a Pocket Mountain Aneroid compensated for temperature, with altitude scale to 3000 feet.
label: Description
content: Ref: J. W. Queen & Co., <i>Mathematical and Engineering Instruments and Materials</i> (Philadelphia, [1880]), p. 179.
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. Geological Survey
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.247926
label: catalog number
content: 247926
label: accession number
content: 47736
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Aneroid Barometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/2 in; 6.35 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 5/8 in x 7/8 in x 2 3/4 in; 9.2075 cm x 2.2225 cm x 6.985 cm