Aneroid Barometer
date: label: date made
content: ca 1920
name: label: maker
content: Short & Mason
notes: label: Description
content: This is a hefty instrument, 5 inches in diameter and 2 inches deep. The face reads: “Surveying Aneroid / COMPENSATED FOR TEMPERATURE / Short & Mason / London / Tycos / Made in England.” The altitude scale around the circumference of the face reads in from sea level to 6000 feet. An inner pressure scale reads from 24.8 to 31 inches of mercury. Both scales can be read by a magnifying lens.
label: Description
content: The Taylor Instrument Companies began operating, as such, 1904, introduced the Tycos trade mark in 1908, and gave this instrument to the Smithsonian in 1923.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
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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: Taylor Instrument Companies
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.308172
label: catalog number
content: 308172
label: accession number
content: 70532
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Aneroid Barometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 3/4 in x 5 5/8 in x 5 in; 6.985 cm x 14.2875 cm x 12.7 cm