Aneroid Barometer
date: label: date made
content: ca 1860
name: label: maker
content: Beaumont, Victor
notes: label: Description
content: Victor Beaumont was a mechanic in New York City with at least six patents to his name. The patent issued on June 14, 1859, described a gauge for measuring the pressure of steam or other fluids. When he realized that Lucien Vidie, in France, had used a similar mechanism to construct the first practical aneroid barometer, Beaumont began making instruments of this sort. At the American Institute Fair of 1859 he was awarded a diploma for a “Cheap Barometer” that was “likely to prove of importance to the agricultural community, because it is cheap, costing only $4, and as effective as the most expensive kind and not likely to get out of order, and can be transported as easily as a watch, with as little danger of injury.”
label: Description
content: This example is marked “Beaumont’s Barometer / 175 Center Street / NEW YORK / Patented June 14, 1859.” The scale extends from 18 to 31 inches of mercury, and is graduated in tenths.
label: Description
content: Ref: Victor Beaumont, “Gage for Measuring the Pressure of Fluids,” U.S. Patent 24,365 (1859).
label: Description
content: “A Cheap Barometer,” <American Institute Annual Report</i> 18 (1859-1861): 180-181.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Barometers
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content: Measuring & Mapping
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.313693
label: catalog number
content: 313693
label: accession number
content: 192408
objectType: label: Object Name
content: barometer, aneroid
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 in x 2 3/8 in x 4 1/4 in; 12.7 cm x 6.0325 cm x 10.795 cm