Add to albumThis is a detail of a special barometer using coloured oil and hydrogen rather than mercury. It was also known as a sympiesometer and dates from around 1825. It was probably made by Alexander Adie, a scientific instrument maker based in Edinburgh.
The detail shows the base of sympiesometer. The silvered brass face is inscribed 'PATENT/ A. ADIE/Edinburgh/ No 579/Spencer Browning/ & Rust/ AGENTS/ London'.
Dealings between the firms of Adie of Edinburgh and Spencer, Browning & Rust of London at this date appear to have been mutual, with each acting as a specialist supplier of items to the other.
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- Online ID: 000-190-001-048-C
- Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
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- Ref: National Museums Scotland T.1967.99
- Date: Around 1825
c. 1825
- Material: Glass fronted wooden case, silvered face, purple fluid in glass tube, mercury in glass thermometer. Inscription: PATENT / A. ADIE / EDINBURGH / No. 579 // Spencer Browning / & Rust / Agents / London //; Capt Robertson / Monarch // Capt A. Paterson's / Shi
Sympiesometer
- Dimensions: 24.50" H
- What: Sympiesometer
- Subject: 10. METEOROLOGY (Departmental Classification)
- Who: A. Adie, Edinburgh (Maker)
Captain A. Paterson (Inscribed on the Sympiesometer)
Robertson (Inscribed on the Sympiesometer)
Spencer, Browning & Rust (Inscribed on the Sympiesometer)
- Where: China
Scotland, Midlothian, Edinburgh
- Event:
- Description: Sympiesometer for meteorology, patented in 1818, by Alexander Adie, Edinburgh, c. 1825
- References:
- Adie, Alexander 'Description of the Patent Sympiesometer or New Air Barometer'. Edinburgh Philosophical Journal 1. 1819 pp 54-60
- Middleton, W E Knowles. The History of the Barometer. Baltimore, 1964. pp 378-81
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