Aneroid Barometer
date: label: date made
content: ca 1879
name: label: maker
content: Green, James
notes: label: Description
content: The “James Green / New York / Compensated” and “U.S.G.S. No 60” inscription on this aneroid barometer indicates a date of 1879, after the establishment of the U.S. Geological Survey, and before Green took his nephew into partnership and began trading as J. & H. J. Green. The pressure scale around the circumference of the face reads from 15 to 31 inches of mercury, and the altitude scale reads from zero to 20,000 feet.
label: Description
content: Ref.: Henry J. Green, <i>Meteorological and Scientific Instruments</i> (Brooklyn, N.Y., ca. 1900), p. 14.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
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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.247924
label: catalog number
content: 247924
label: accession number
content: 47736
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Aneroid Barometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 3/4 in; 6.985 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 5/8 in x 1 3/8 in x 2 3/4 in; 9.2075 cm x 3.4925 cm x 6.985 cm