Object data
brass, copper, iron, steel, wood and glass
height 32.2 cm × width 20.7 cm × depth 4.7 cm
Eugène Bourdon
Aneroid Barometer
Paris, c. 1860
Inscriptions
- inscription, on the dial: Livres par pouce carré / MANOMETRE METALLIQUE / DE / E. BOURDON BREVETE / A / PARIS E. BOURDON 1667
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-1063
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Aneroid barometer consisting of a round dial mounted on a cock.
The dial has a pointer and scale ranging from 0 to 35. The mechanism inside the dial casing consists of a flat tube bent along the outside of the casing, which scrolls or unscrolls according to the pressure, and moves the pointer via a system of levers and a gear train.
This instrument was deposited in the Navy Model Room in 1863.1 E. Bourdon’s aneroid barometer was used as a steam gauge for steam engine boilers from 1860 onwards.
Literature
A. Meijer, ‘De metaal-barometer van Bourdon’, Verhandelingen en berigten betrekkelijk het zeewezen (1859), no. 1, pp. 281-91; J. Bourne, A Treatise on the Steam-Engine in its Various Applications to Mines, Mills, Steam Navigation, Railways, and Agriculture, London 1861 (5th ed.), p. 215; J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1063
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Eugène Bourdon, Aneroid Barometer, Paris, c. 1860', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244878
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