Cooke, Josiah Parsons, 1827-1894 · Boston, Little, Brown and Company · leaf 309
t-maker f in adjusting the scaleof the instrument. (161.) Common Barometer.— Having described at lengththe two most useful and accu-rate forms of the barometer, itwill not be necessary to domore than allude to the nu-merous modifications of theinstrument which have beendevised by Gay-Lussac… … Fig. 265. Fig. 266. * See Guyots Meteorological Tables, published by the Smithsonian Institution.t Good barometers, like the one described, are made by Green, of New York. THE THBEB STATES OP MATTER. 285 •weather-indicator, is represented in Fig. 265. The glass tubehas the form of a siphon, as…
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