Aneroid Barometer
date: label: date made
content: ca 1881
name: label: maker
content: Hottinger & Cie.
notes: label: Description
content: Jakob Goldschmid, a mechanic in Zurich, Switzerland, designed several aneroid barometers. This example was produced by the firm run by Rudolf Hottinger, Goldschmid’s son-in-law and successor. The face is marked “Aneroid Barometer / No. 3241” and “HOTTINGER & Cie / ZŰRICH” and carries a scale of correction tables. The internal tension spring is of the traditional curved form.
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
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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.314546
label: accession number
content: 204612
label: catalog number
content: 314546
objectType: label: Object Name
content: barometer, aneroid
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/4 in; 8.255 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in case: 2 3/4 in x 3 3/4 in x 4 7/8 in; 6.985 cm x 9.525 cm x 12.3825 cm