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Meteorological Apparatus (incomplete)?, Late 19th Century

Inventory Number 28977


Item type
Object
Provenance
Not ascertained. From Radcliffe Observatory?
Primary inscriptions
Unsigned and undated.
Physical material
Copper Alloy
Glass
Iron
Dimensions
Height: 240mm
Inventory No
28977

Description

Cast-iron support with circular base to which is attached a tray with small U-shaped glass manometer to one side and a tube-support from which projects a wire attached to a copper alloy tube, and to the support above the tray a copper alloy plate to which is attached a worm-screw micrometre and a flattened tube spiral terminating into a small tap and connector, its other end also terminates into a ribbed connector a rubber tube?). Very incomplete.