This is a used Antique Storm King Stick Barometer-Thermometer made by E. Spooner In Boston Massachusetts. The glass tubes are intact. It is made in second half of the 1800s and is made of walnut wood. There is spotting and discoloration on the paper inside the glass. Please look at [...]
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Timby’s patent John M. Merrick & Co. Barometer Worcester, Massachusetts, c. 1857
The first of his two barometer patents, issued in 1857, described an instrument in which the expansion of mercury with increase of temperature would not burst the tube. Scientific American praised Timby for having succeeded in rendering this instrument perfectly portable, going to predict a speedy and universal [...]