Mercury Barometer
date: label: date made
content: 1840s
name: label: maker
content: Bon, John
notes: label: Description
content: Mercury barometer in a rectangular mahogany case. The inscription on the brass plate at the top reads “JN BON & CO DUNDEE.” The cistern is boxwood with a leather bottom; the plunger that would have been used to adjust the volume has been lost; and the whole is enclosed in a brass box.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: Scotland, Dundee City
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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: Miss Elsie Howland Quinby
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.326225
label: accession number
content: 214358
label: catalog number
content: 326225
objectType: label: Object Name
content: barometer, mercury
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 37 3/4 in x 2 3/8 in; 95.885 cm x 6.0325 cm