Desk Set
date: label: date made
content: ca 1900
notes: label: Description
content: In this apparatus which came to the Smithsonian in 1923, a walnut base holds two circular instruments, each 3¼ inches diameter and 1½ inches deep. One is a clock. The other is an aneroid barometer with two pointers. The pressure scale on the barometer extends from 27 to 31 inches of mercury, read to tenths of an inch. It is also marked “STORMY MUCH RAIN RAIN CHANGE FAIR SET FAIR VERY DRY.” A wooden pillar between these two instruments holds a mercury-in-glass thermometer with an enameled back and a metal plate with temperature scale.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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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: Dr. and Mrs. M. L. Turner
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.307962
label: accession number
content: 69572
label: catalog number
content: 307962
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Desk Set
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/2 in x 7 3/4 in x 2 1/2 in; 21.59 cm x 19.685 cm x 6.35 cm