mercurial barometer temperature correction scale
Date: 1890-1910
Inventory Number: 1998-1-0622
Classification: Barometer
Dimensions:24 × 4.2 × 2.7 cm (9 7/16 × 1 5/8 × 1 1/16 in.)
Description:
Small mercury barometer consisting of a thin glass tube partially filled with mercury, attached to a semi-cylindrical metal stand with a rectangular metal temperature correction scale to the side of the mercury tube. The temperature correction scale runs from -60 to 200 in intervals of 10. Plastic scale marker runs from 19 to 31, alternating.