Paulin Aneroid Altimeter
date: label: date made
content: ca 1929-1940
notes: label: Description
content: Joshua Gabriel Paulin, in Sweden, developed an aneroid barometer with an adjustable capsule that was suitable for use in altimetry. This example is marked, on its face, “PRECISION ALTIMETER / Patented” and “System Paulin / Stockholm” and “MADE IN SWEDEN BY C.E. JOHANSSON, ESKILSTUNA.” The outer scale around the circumference extends from 4000 to 9700 feet and the inner one extends from -900 to +4000 feet, and both are graduated to 10-feet intervals. The back of the case in marked "MADE IN SWEDEN A1217 PAT'D U.S.A. SEPT 9-19 APR 13-26."
label: Description
content: A gold label on the leather case reads “The American Paulin System INC. 1220 MAPLE AVENUE LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.” This company termed this model “The ENGINEER” and, in 1929, sold it for $125.
label: Description
content: Ref: J.G. Paulin, "Fluid-Pressure Indicator," U.S. Patent 1,315,858 (1919).
label: Description
content: Paulin, "Instrument for Measuring Pressures and Forces," U.S. Patent 1,580,568 (1926).
label: Description
content: W.E.K. Middleton, <History of the Barometer</i> (Baltimore, 1964), pp. 421-422.
label: Description
content: The American Paulin System, Inc., Catalog (1929), section III.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Sweden: Södermanland, Eskilstuna
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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: University of Missouri-Columbia
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.333643
label: catalog number
content: 333643
label: accession number
content: 300659
objectType: label: Object Name
content: altimeter, aneroid
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/2 in; 11.43 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in case: 3 7/8 in x 5 7/8 in; 9.8425 cm x 14.9225 cm