Aneroid Barometer
date: label: date made
content: 1870-1890
notes: label: Description
content: This is a small brass instrument, 1¾ inches diameter. The silvered face is marked “R. & J. BECK’S / FARMER’S / BAROMETER / 31 Cornhill / LONDON / 582.” The scale around the circumference of the face reads from 25 to 31 inches of mercury, in fifths of an inch. The back is marked “Signal Service / U.S. Army, / No. 17.” There is also a dark leather case. The U.S. Weather Bureau transferred it to the Smithsonian in 1954.
label: Description
content: This was probably made after 1870, when the Signal Service was given charge of the national weather service.
label: Description
content: R. & J. Beck was in business, as such, from 1865 to 1895, making and selling microscopes and other optical instruments. Although they sold aneroids, it is unlikely that they made them.
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.314551
label: accession number
content: 204612
label: catalog number
content: 314551
objectType: label: Object Name
content: barometer, aneroid
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/4 in x 1 3/4 in; 1.905 cm x 4.445 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in case: 1 3/16 in x 2 1/4 in x 2 1/2 in; 3.01625 cm x 5.715 cm x 6.35 cm