THIS IS AN INCREDIBLE ANNAPOLIS, MD. HISTORIC DISTRICT ESTATE ATTIC SHELF FIND FOR AN ANTIQUE WEATHER INSTRUMENT COLLECTION. IT’S A LATE 1800s – EARLY 1900s JOSE’ ALGUE (DIRECTOR OF THE MANILA OBSERVATORY) TYPHOON BAROMETER / CYCLONOMETER. IT WAS MADE BY SCHMIDT & ZIEGLER of REMSCHEID, [...]
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Antique Mahogany BaroCyclonometer by Heath & Co. London Fr. José María Algué
I don’t really know how to operate this guage but I have some background. It was invented by a catholic priest around 1912 or so and is used to predict the point of impact of a tropical storm. It does this by mapping the drop [...]