Aneroid Barometer

...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883

ObjectNumber: NG-MC-1063

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 1863.¹¹HNA 2.12.01 Min. Marine, Exh. 14/4/1862 N38, 18/4/1862 N49. E. Bourdon’s aneroid barometer was used as a steam gauge for steam engine boilers from 1860 onwards.

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

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