Wheel Barometer (replica)
notes: label: Description
content: Robert Hooke (1635-1703), “curator of experiments” at the newly formed Royal Society of London, described a wheel barometer in his book, <i>Micrographia</i> (London, 1665). This is a modern replica of that instrument. The inscription reads "Eichner fecit ... anno MCMLIX"
label: Description
content: Ref: W. E. Knowles Middleton, <i>Catalog of Meteorological Instruments in the Museum of History and Technology</i> (Washington, D.C., 1969), pp. 8-9.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.316857
label: catalog number
content: 316857
label: accession number
content: 228484
objectType: label: Object Name
content: wheel barometer (replica)
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/4 in x 38 in x 21 in; 13.335 cm x 96.52 cm x 53.34 cm