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Description: | This is a barometer combined with a thermometer. This pocket-size instrument, also called an aneroid barometer, was used in mine surveying. The barometer scales show the air pressure and the corresponding altitude, and the little curved thermometer shows the temperature. This barometer comes from the workshop of Frederick Robson, who set up his business as a scientific instrument maker in Newcastle in 1866. He was also an optician, making spectacles and lenses. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | small business 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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