29th Nov, 2023 12:00
Fine Instruments of Science & Medicine
A Very Early Lucian Vidi Type Aneroid Barometer by Dent, London
English, c.1840, delicately engraved to the silvered face 'E. J. DENT Paris, 55' the scale engraved in barometric inches with typical weather conditions engraved above, with curved Farenheit's Thermometer below, diameter 12cm
Footnote: the earliest dated example of this barometer in the London Science museum is numbered 296 and dated to 1846. this barometer has the lowest number we have been able to find
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English, c.1840, delicately engraved to the silvered face 'E. J. DENT Paris, 55' the scale engraved in barometric inches with typical weather conditions engraved above, with curved Farenheit's Thermometer below, diameter 12cm
Footnote: the earliest dated example of this barometer in the London Science museum is numbered 296 and dated to 1846. this barometer has the lowest number we have been able to find
Auction: Fine Instruments of Science & Medicine, 29th Nov, 2023
