Object Details
- Hottinger & Cie.
- Description
- Jakob Goldschmid, a mechanic in Zurich, Switzerland, designed several aneroid barometers. This example was produced by the firm run by Rudolf Hottinger, Goldschmid’s son-in-law and successor. The face is marked “Aneroid Barometer / No. 3241” and “HOTTINGER & Cie / ZŰRICH” and carries a scale of correction tables. The internal tension spring is of the traditional curved form.
- Ref.: "The Goldschmid Aneroid," Van Nostrand's Engineering Magazine 25 (1881): 300-303.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- U.S. Weather Bureau
- ca 1881
- ID Number
- PH.314546
- accession number
- 204612
- catalog number
- 314546
- Object Name
- barometer, aneroid
- Measurements
- overall: 3 1/4 in; 8.255 cm
- overall in case: 2 3/4 in x 3 3/4 in x 4 7/8 in; 6.985 cm x 9.525 cm x 12.3825 cm
- place made
- Switzerland: Zürich
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
- Barometers
- Measuring & Mapping
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1419942
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ad-9bec-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
