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Marvelous works of nature and art : together with useful and interesting information for all, with plates of illustration (1873)

Cook, Loring · Utica, N.Y. : T.J. Griffiths, printer · leaf 198

An illustration from Marvelous works of nature and art : together with useful and interesting information for all, with plates of illustration, 1873, leaf 198 — scale, called the wheel barometer, was invented. DESCRIPTION OF THE WHEEL BAROMETER. The wThole length of this ba-rometer is 34 -or 35 inches, and it isfilled with mercury as -usual. Themercury rises in the short leg tothe point o, where there is a smallpiece of glass floating on its surface,to… … 1 82 MEASUREMENT OF HEIGHTS, &C. slight variation in the height of the mercuryat o, will be indicated by a considerable mo-tion of the index, and thus changes in theweight of the atmosphere, hardly perceptibleby the common barometer, will become quiteapparent by this. HEIGHTS MEASURED BY THE…

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