23 results filtered with: Barometers
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A treatise on the aneroid, a newly invented portable barometer. With a short historical notice on barometers in general, their construction and use / By Edward J. Dent.
Dent, Edward John, 1790-1853.Date: 1850- Books
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An historical and philosophical account of the barometer, or Weather-Glass. Wherein The Reason and Use of that Instrument, the Theory of the Atmosphere, the Causes of its different Gravitation are assign'd and explain'd. And a Modest Attempt from thence made towards a rational Account and probable Judgment of the Weather. By Edw. Saul, A. M. late Fellow of Magdalen College Oxford, and Rector of Harlaxton, Lincolnshire.
Saul, Edward, 1677-1754.Date: 1730- Books
Special offers in eyewear / Optical Department, Gamages.
Gamages Ltd. Optical Department.Date: [1930?]- Pictures
Cabinet-making: a design for the carved housing of a barometer and thermometer [?]. Pencil drawing.
Reference: 42544i- Books
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A description of the nature, construction, and use of the Torricellian, or simple barometer. With a scale of rectification for estimating the true altitude of the column of mercurcy (equal to the Weight of the Atmosphere) to the Hundredth Part of an Inch. Also The Theory and Construction of the Compound Barometer; the Nature and Use of the Thermometer, and Hygrometer. With an appendix. Containing an Analytical Solution of a Barometrical Problem. The whole illustrated by Copper-Plate Figures of the several Instruments. By Benjamin Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]- Pictures
Cabinet-making: a design for the carved housing of a barometer and thermometer [?]. Pencil drawing.
Reference: 42545i- Books
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Barometrical observations on the depth of the mines in the Hartz. By John Andrew de Luc, F. R. S. Read at the Royal Society, March 20, 1777.
Luc, J. A. de (Jean André), 1727-1817.Date: MDCCLXXVII. [1777]- Pictures
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Clocks: James Cox's "perpetual motion" self-winding clock. Engraving by J. Lodge, 1774.
Date: 1774Reference: 40950i- Books
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An historical and philosophical account of the barometer, or weather-glass ... And a modest attempt from thence made towards a rational account and probable judgement of the weather / By Edw. Saul, A.M.
Saul, Edward, 1677-1754.Date: 1730- Pictures
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A doctor inserts a barometer, instead of a thermometer, in a patient's backside: his condition reads "Set fair". Colour process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
Faivre, Abel, 1867-1945.Date: 22 March 1902Reference: 17083i- Pictures
Clocks: a barometer face (below), and mechanism (top). Engraving by Defehrt after L.J. Goussier.
Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799.Reference: 40738i- Pictures
Cabinet-making: a design for the housing of a barometer and thermometer [?]. Pencil drawing.
Reference: 42546i- Books
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An historical and philosophical account of the barometer, or, weather-glass, wherein the reason and use of that instrument, the theory of the atmosphere, the causes of its different gravitation are assigned and explained. And a modest attempt from thence made towards a rational account and probable judgment of the weather / By Edward Saul, A.M.
Saul, Edward, 1677-1754.Date: 1766- Pictures
Cabinet-making: a design for the housing of a barometer and thermometer [?]. Pencil drawing.
Reference: 42547i- Books
An account of Robert Hook's invention of the marine barometer, with its description and uses; published by order of the Royal Society / by E. Halley.
Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742.Date: 1708- Pictures
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A maid bringing medicine and soup to her master who has a cold. Lithograph, 1857, after W.H. Simmons after J. Collinson.
Collinson, James, 1825-1881.Date: 1 August 1857Reference: 23337i- Pictures
Clocks: a pocket watch mechanism (top), and details (below). Engraving [by Defehrt?] after L.J. Goussier.
Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799.Reference: 40779i- Pictures
Clocks: a marine chronometer and barometer. Engraving by Defehrt after L.J. Goussier.
Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799.Reference: 40747i- Pictures
Clocks: a [combined?] marine chronometer, barometer, and thermometer. Engraving by A.J. Defehrt after L.J. Goussier.
Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799.Reference: 40737i- Pictures
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A doctor asking a patient's wife if she has taken his temperature; she replies that she used the barometer to take his temperature and that, as he was very dry she gave him some beer. Wood engraving by G. King, 1911.
King, Gunning.Date: 1911Reference: 15380i- Pictures
Clocks: a marine chronometer, barometer, and thermometer. Engraving by Defehrt after L.J. Goussier.
Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799.Reference: 40838i- Pictures
Cabinet-making: a design for the housing of a barometer [?]. Pencil drawing.
Reference: 42548i- Ephemera
John Marshall, maker of optic glasses to his Majesty at the Archimedes & two golden spectacles in Ludgate Street sells all sorts of double & single telescopes, microscopes, prospective & weather glasses.
Marshall, John.Date: [between 1900 and 1999]