Barometer
notes: label: Description
content: Mercury barometer made by Bowen & Co., then of Bethesda, Md. and used at Washington National Airport from 1941 to 1998.
label: Description
content: Edgar Bowen, a British-born, Cambridge-educated engineer who worked for the National Bureau of Standards, established Bowen & Co., then a one-man electronics firm, in the Maryland suburbs of Washington in 1933. The firm was incorporated in 1938 and expanded greatly during World War II.
label: Description
content: “New Products Give Bowen Edge Over Bigger Rivals,” Washington Post (Jan. 26, 1958), p. C6.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Maryland, Bethesda
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1998.0305.01
label: catalog number
content: 1998.0305.01
label: accession number
content: 1998.0305
objectType: label: Object Name
content: barometer, mercury
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 50.5 cm x 26.2 cm x 22 cm; 19 7/8 in x 10 5/16 in x 8 11/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 55 7/8 in x 10 1/4 in x 8 1/2 in; 141.9225 cm x 26.035 cm x 21.59 cm