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Code 8158
EUR 350.00
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1776259508Code 8158 Aneroid BarometerBrass and glass aneroid barometer by Lufft for the English market in the 1950s.
Good condition, fully functional.
Dimensions: 9 x 4.5 x 11 cm – 3.6 x 1.8 x 4.2 in.
It is a measuring instrument whose pressure-sensing organ is a metal box called a barometric capsule. The capsule contracts or expands as a result of changes in pressure, and its movements are transmitted to an indicator hand via a mechanical system. The development of this type of barometer is due to Bourdon, a French inventor and industrialist (Paris 1808-1884), who had founded a factory for the construction of steam engines in Paris in 1835; in 1849 he invented the metal manometer, to which he attached his name, and in 1853 a type of aneroid barometer.
Since ancient times, humans, as farmers and navigators, have observed and attempted to predict climate change. The scientific study of atmospheric changes began in the mid-17th century, in connection with experiments aimed at demonstrating the existence of a vacuum, which ancient philosophers denied because "nature abhors a vacuum!" Evangelista Torricelli (1608-1647), a mathematician and physicist and disciple of Galileo, was the first, in 1643, to build an instrument capable of detecting changes in air pressure, which he understood to be linked to changes in the weather.
Gotthilf Lufft (1848-1921), a technical assistant at the Stuttgart Polytechnic, began his career in 1873 at the age of 25, taking over an optical company and immediately starting to produce aneroid capsules in his workshop, which until then had been imported from France. A dynamic entrepreneur, Lufft successfully managed both the optical production and the production of aneroid barometers, compasses, and hygrometers. These instruments were introduced into the company's catalog during the First World War, alongside a wide range of meteorological measuring devices.
Today, the G. Lufft company is a market leader in climate measurement technology.
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Code 8158 Aneroid Barometer
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