TAYLOR INSTRUMENT COMPANY VINTAGE BAROGRAPH BAROMETER. This high-quality barograph is mounted on a mahogany base (12 3/4″ x 7 1/2″ in greatest dimension) with a mahogany cover including a reflecting mirror. In such barographs one or more aneroid cells act through a gear or lever train to drive a recording arm that has at its extreme end either a scribe or a pen. A scribe records on smoked foil while a pen records on paper using ink, held in a nib. The recording material is mounted on a cylindrical drum which is rotated slowly by clockwork. Commonly, the drum makes one revolution per week. It has numbers of 127 on the clock mechanism. Clock diameter is 4 with a drum height of 3 7/8. The clock works and turns the drum and the barometer seems to change. It comes with its original ink bottle with some ink. The clock gear wheel is marked 127. The clock face state that its made in Switzerland one adjustable and 2 jewels. Its difficult to date this barograph but based on similar items on the web, this may be circa 1920. Paselk Scientific Instrument Museum at Humbolt State University for a simlair Alidade. Which manufactured automatic temperature and pressure controlling devices, and the R. The consolidation of the individual companies under the umbrella name Taylor Instrument Companies allowed them to continue manufacturing for some time as The Hohmann & Maurer Manufacturing Company, a Branch of Taylor Instrument Companies. In 1911, after discussions about moving the plant closer to Rochester, the Watertown Thermometer plant was closed and all of its equipment installed in a new building adjacent to the main plant on Ames Street. The company continued to develop in the second half of the twentieth century, and merged with Combustion Engineering in 1983, becoming one of the largest process instrumentation companies in the United States. Combustion Engineering became part of the ABB Group in 1989, joining the largest electrical engineering company in the world. The item “ANTIQUE TAYLOR INSTRUMENT COMPANY VINTAGE BAROGRAPH BAROMETER” is in sale since Sunday, May 20, 2018. This item is in the category “Antiques\Science & Medicine (Pre-1930)\Scientific Instruments\Barometers”. The seller is “fajt40″ and is located in Fair Oaks, California. This item can be shipped worldwide.
