Brass wall-mounted aneroid barometer signed John Barker & Son, early 1900s.

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Brass and glass wall-mounted aneroid barometer mounted on turned oak plank, signed John Barker & Son Ltd Kensington. This is an instrument whose pressure-sensitive organ is a metal box called a barometric capsule. English manufacture of the early 1900s. Good condition, working. Table diameter cm 28 - inches 11, barometer diameter cm 19 - inches 7.5, thickness cm 10 - inches 4. The capsule contracts or expands as a result of pressure changes, and its movements are transmitted to an indicating pointer by a mechanical system. The development of this type of barometer was due to Bourdon, a French inventor and industrialist (Paris 1808-1884). He founded a factory in Paris in 1835 to build steam engines; in 1849 he invented the metal manometer, to which he linked his name, and in 1853 a type of aneroid barometer. Notes Since ancient times man, as a farmer and navigator, has observed and attempted to predict weather patterns. The scientific study of the changes occurring in the atmosphere began in the mid-17th century in connection with experiments tending to prove the existence of a vacuum, which ancient philosophers denied because "nature abhors a vacuum!" Evangelista Torricelli (1608-1647), mathematician and physicist, a disciple of Galileo, was the first in 1643 to build an instrument capable of detecting changes in air pressure, which he understood to be related to changes in weather. Last photo gift box. John Barker began his career working as a fabric salesman in Folkestone and Dover. He then worked for Spencer, Turner & Boldero and later for William Whiteley in Westbourne Grove in Bayswater, London. After Whiteley refused to go into partnership with him, he decided to set up store on Kensington High Street with Sir James Whitehead, founding Barkers of Kensington, which became a public company known as John Barker & Co Ltd in 1894.

Dimensions:
Height: 4 in (10.16 cm)Diameter: 11 in (27.94 cm)
Materials and Techniques:
Brass
Period:
1900-1909
Date of Manufacture:
1900
Condition:
Wear consistent with age and use.
Seller Location:
Milan, IT
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU1020237232592

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