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36201416953734Code 4107 Barometer FitzroyRare barometer and thermometer made ​​in the second half of the nineteenth century by Admiral Fitzroy. The mercury barometer is placed in a oak wooden cabinet complete with coping. The barometer is complete with double reading vernier applied to the column of mercury for the verification of the change of the atmospheric pressure and a bulb with a particular fluid that foresaw the arrival of bad weather. Very good condition, fully functional. Height 120 cm - inches 47.24, width 23 cm - inches 9, depth cm 6.9 - inches 2.7.

Son of Lord Charles Robert Fitzroy was born in Suffolk in 1805 and he enlisted in Navy when he was 12 years old. He was captain between 1831-26 of HMS Beagle, the ship used during expeditions of Charles Darwin; become admiral, he was designated member of Durham Parliament in 1841 and appointed governor of New Zeland in 1843. When he retired from active service in 1850, he became interested in meteorological science, inducing induced the Times to publish everyday meteorological information and to give all coastal villages a barometer. He drew and made barometers and in 1862 he published a book that reassumed his meteorological studies.

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