Barograph

Floating barograph, or self-registering barometer, designed by Alfred King, Liverpool, 1862. The instrument was operated at Liverpool Observatory, Bidston Hill, between 1863 and February 1940. The barometer tube is counterpoised to float in the cast iron cistern, which would have contained mercury when the instrument was operational. When atmospheric pressure falls, the tube rises and causes the frame, which would carry a pencil, to fall. The pencil thus inscribes a continuous record of atmospheric pressure onto a recording cylinder, rotated by clockwork. The record was magnified so that a change of pressure over 1 inch of mercury caused a change of 5 inches on the recording chart.

Floating barograph used at Liverpool Observatory, 1862

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Floating barograph used at Liverpool Observatory, 1862

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