Aneroid Barometer
Aneroid Barometer
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- Description
- This small brass instrument, 2½ inches diameter, was owned by Spencer Fullerton Baird (1823-1887), the second Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. The silvered face is marked "R. & J. Beck / 51 Cornhill / LONDON / 516 / Compensated." The pressure scale around the circumference of the face extends from 15 to 31 inches of mercury. The altitude scale extends from 0 to 18,000 feet. The instrument is stored in a round, red leather case. R. & J. Beck was in business, as such, from 1865 to 1895.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Aneroid Barometer
- date made
- 1865-1895
- maker
- R. & J. Beck
- place made
- United Kingdom: England, London
- Measurements
- overall: 2.3 cm x 6.2 cm; 29/32 in x 2 7/16 in
- overall in case: 1 in x 2 1/2 in x 3 in; 2.54 cm x 6.35 cm x 7.62 cm
- ID Number
- PH.284273
- accession number
- 55865
- catalog number
- 284273
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
- Barometers
- Measuring & Mapping
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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