Aneroid Barometer
date: label: date made
content: ca 1870-1883
name: label: maker
content: Hottinger & Cie.
notes: label: Description
content: Jakob Goldschmid, a mechanic in Zurich, Switzerland, designed an aneroid barometer that promised great stability, but that had to be adjusted before each reading. This example was manufactured by the firm run by Rudolf Hottinger, Goldschmid’s son-in-law and successor. It has an eyepiece for viewing the internal mechanism, and a thermometer for determining the internal temperature. The face is marked “Ship-Barometer / No. 116” and “HOTTINGER & CO. / ZURICH” and also carries a scale of correction tables. A printed card with diagram and instructions for use, in English, is mounted inside the case.
label: Description
content: Ref.: "The Goldschmid Aneroid," <i>Van Nostrand's Engineering Magazine</i> 25 (1881): 300-303.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Switzerland: Zürich, Zurich
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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.314545
label: accession number
content: 204612
label: catalog number
content: 314545
objectType: label: Object Name
content: barometer, aneroid
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in; 8.89 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in case: 3 in x 4 1/4 in x 6 in; 7.62 cm x 10.795 cm x 15.24 cm