Barometer
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- OBJECT TYPE
- ANEROID/IN/FT/PORTABLE
- DATE
- 1930
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1990.0205.001
- MANUFACTURER
- HICKS, J.
- MODEL
- WATKIN PATENT
- LOCATION
- London, England
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- 768
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- FERROUS & NON-FERROUS METAL CASING/ GLASS DIAL COVER/ METAL WORKING PARTS
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- N/A
- Width
- N/A
- Height
- N/A
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Meteorology
- Category
- Atmospheric pressure measurement
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- HICKS
- Country
- England
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- London
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- Unknown
- Canada
-
A BRITISH MADE BAROMETER USED BY THE DOMINION OBSERVATORY, WHICH WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1905. IT IS PART OF A COLLECTION OF HISTORICAL SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS ACQUIRED BY NRC IN THE 1930'S - Function
-
AN INSTRUMENT THAT MEASURES ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE THROUGH ITS EFFECT ON AN ANEROID, OR METAL CHAMBER PARTIALLY EXHAUSTED OF AIR, USED IN MEASURING ELEVATION. - Technical
-
Unknown - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- BLACK LETTERING ON DIAL FACE FEADING `WATKIN PATENT/ Compensated [IN SCRIPT]/ NO.768/ J. HICKS./ 8,9,&10 Hatton Garden [IN SCRIPT]/ LONDON' WITH SCALE MARKINGS FOR 21 TO 31 IN. & 0 TO 10,000 FT./ `Dom. Obs./27' HAND INCISED ON CASING SIDE/ BACKSTAMPED `3988' WITH LOGO
- Missing
- N/A
- Finish
- GOLD COLOURED CASING/ WHITE DIAL/ BLUE INDICATOR NEEDLE/ COLOURLESS TRANSPARENT GLASS
- Decoration
- N/A
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HICKS, J., Barometer, before 1930, Artifact no. 1990.0205, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1990.0205.001/
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