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Code 8364
EUR 1400.00
In stock
1765023496Code 8364 Aneroid BarometerEnglish aneroid barometer, mounted on a brass frame and featuring a rich ornamental design in late-19th-century style.
The structure, created using lost-wax casting, displays remarkable attention to detail and includes a fishing spear with a long rope wrapping around the frame, two crossed oars, two anthropomorphic dolphins, and two culverins at the base.
The overall design expresses an eclectic taste that combines maritime and ornamental elements, enclosing the barometer in an elaborate frame that allows a glimpse of the internal mechanism, complete with gilded gears, springs, and levers. The choice to display the movement is typical of many mid-20th-century productions, a period in which the popularity of "visible" scientific instruments was spreading.
Good condition; working barometer.
Dimensions: 16 × 6 × 29.5 cm – 6.3 x 2.4 x 11.7 in.
The barometer is an ancient measuring instrument whose pressure-sensitive organ is a metal box called a "barometric capsule." This box contracts or expands as a result of pressure changes, and its movements are transmitted to an indicator hand through a mechanical system. The development of this type of barometer is due to Bourdon, a French inventor and industrialist (Paris, 1808-1884), who founded a factory for the construction of steam engines in 1835. In 1849, he invented the metal manometer, to which he attached his name, and in 1853 an aneroid barometer.
Since ancient times, humans—as farmers and navigators—have observed and attempted to predict climate patterns. The scientific study of atmospheric changes began in the mid-17th century, in connection with experiments aimed at demonstrating the existence of a vacuum, which ancient philosophers denied because "nature abhors a vacuum."
Evangelista Torricelli (1608-1647), a mathematician and physicist, a disciple of Galileo, was the first, in 1643, to build an instrument capable of detecting changes in air pressure, understanding that these were linked to changes in the weather.
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Code 8364 Aneroid Barometer
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