Beck Pocket Aneroid Barometer
- Description
- This is a small brass instrument, 1¾ inches diameter. The silvered face is marked “R. & J. BECK’S / FARMER’S / BAROMETER / 31 Cornhill / LONDON / 582.” The scale around the circumference of the face reads from 25 to 31 inches of mercury, in fifths of an inch. The back is marked “Signal Service / U.S. Army, / No. 17.” There is also a dark leather case. The U.S. Weather Bureau transferred it to the Smithsonian in 1954.
- This was probably made after 1870, when the Signal Service was given charge of the national weather service.
- R. & J. Beck was in business, as such, from 1865 to 1895, making and selling microscopes and other optical instruments. Although they sold aneroids, it is unlikely that they made them.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1870-1890
- place made
- United Kingdom: England, London
- Measurements
- overall: 3/4 in x 1 3/4 in; 1.905 cm x 4.445 cm
- overall in case: 1 3/16 in x 2 1/4 in x 2 1/2 in; 3.01625 cm x 5.715 cm x 6.35 cm
- ID Number
- PH.314551
- accession number
- 204612
- catalog number
- 314551
- Credit Line
- U.S. Weather Bureau
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- Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
- Measuring & Mapping
- Barometers
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
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