Negretti & Zambra
- London
Good quality and unusual
19th Century oak cased ‘Admiral Fitzroy’s
Storm Barometer’ - No. 1414 - in essentially
original condition. The porcelain barometer
plates bearing twin rack-and-pinion operated
verniers for ‘today’ and ‘yesterday’,
and signed by the makers. The inset mercury
Fahrenheit thermometer also signed. The plates
are protected by bevelled plate glass. The original
concealed wide-bore barometer tube terminating
in rectilinear cistern cover.
c1870
Negretti & Zambra were the world's foremost
Scientific Instrument makers of the latter 19th
and early 20th Centuries, producing a large
volume of precision instruments. This type of
barometer was produced at public expense primarily
for sea-ports and hence was assembled entirely
using screws and without the use of glue.
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