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Description: | This instrument belonged to the Tyne Pilotage Commission. The top part is a barometer, and the bottom part contains a thermometer with a Fahrenheit and a Celsius scale. The instrument was made by Mawson and Swan of Newcastle, a company which was founded in the early 1800s. Their business comprised scientific instruments, spectacles, photographic apparatus, plates and chemicals. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | living in the North East small business transport made in the North East | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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