Mountain barometer
Date
1808
Creator
Wilson Lowry (1762 - 1824, British) , Engraver
Object type
Library reference
9183
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 210mm
width (print): 128mm
width (print): 128mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Two figures showing the construction elements of a mountain barometer, manufactured by Thomas Jones.
In the accompanying article, the author states that: ‘by simplifying the barometer, and thereby rendering the instrument much less expensive, and its use at the same time more easy, and showing that very considerable accuracy may be cultivated by a single observer, this most useful branch of science may be cultivated, to so great an extent, that, in the course of a few years, we may have almost as perfect an idea of the relative heights of the different parts of England, as we now have of their horizontal distance.’
Plate 1, illustrating the paper: ‘Description of the mountain barometer, invented by Sir Henry C. Englefield, Bart. F.R.S. and made by Mr. Thomas Jones, of Mount Street, Berkley Square’ The Philosophical Magazine…[edited] by Alexander Tilloch, v.30, (1808) pp.46-62 and 176-177.
Inscribed above: ‘Philo. Mag. Vol.XXX. Pl.I. Sir H.C. Englefield’s Mountain Barometer, by Thos. Jones of Mount Street’. Inscribed below: ‘Lowry sculp.’.
Sir Henry Charles Englefield, 7th Baronet (c.1752-1822) British antiquary and writer on science, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1778.
Thomas Jones (1775-1852) British optician and scientific instrument maker.
In the accompanying article, the author states that: ‘by simplifying the barometer, and thereby rendering the instrument much less expensive, and its use at the same time more easy, and showing that very considerable accuracy may be cultivated by a single observer, this most useful branch of science may be cultivated, to so great an extent, that, in the course of a few years, we may have almost as perfect an idea of the relative heights of the different parts of England, as we now have of their horizontal distance.’
Plate 1, illustrating the paper: ‘Description of the mountain barometer, invented by Sir Henry C. Englefield, Bart. F.R.S. and made by Mr. Thomas Jones, of Mount Street, Berkley Square’ The Philosophical Magazine…[edited] by Alexander Tilloch, v.30, (1808) pp.46-62 and 176-177.
Inscribed above: ‘Philo. Mag. Vol.XXX. Pl.I. Sir H.C. Englefield’s Mountain Barometer, by Thos. Jones of Mount Street’. Inscribed below: ‘Lowry sculp.’.
Sir Henry Charles Englefield, 7th Baronet (c.1752-1822) British antiquary and writer on science, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1778.
Thomas Jones (1775-1852) British optician and scientific instrument maker.
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