Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.16474

    Barometric apparatus

    Date
    1704
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p149
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (paper): 300mm
    width (paper): 188mm
    Subject
    Physics
       > Vacuum physics
          > Pneumatics
    Content object
    Description
    Instrument for an experiment of the descent of mercury in a barometer in a storm. Published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 24, no. 292 (1704).
    Object history
    Francis Hauksbee, 'An experiment, to show the cause of the descent of the mercury in the barometer in a storm', Phil. Trans., vol. 24, no. 292 (1704), pp. 1629-30.
    Related fellows
    Francis Hauksbee (1688 - 1763, British) , Instrument maker
    Associated place
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          > United Kingdom
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