Article ID: CBB000500118

Origins of the Marine Barometer (2005)

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In 1668 Robert Hooke recognised the utility of a barometer which could foretell storms at sea, but neither he nor his contemporaries in Britain or elsewhere in Europe succeeded in constructing such an instrument which would work reliably on a moving ship. Theorists and instrument makers, including Hooke, Amontons, De Luc, Passement, Magellan and Blondeau proposed novel forms of tube, but at the time it was not possible to work glass to the suggested shape. The competition between France and England was won by Edward Nairne, who devised the constricted-tube barometer for Captain Cook's second voyage of 1772-75. Nairne barometers were soon taken on other British exploring voyages, but French ships were slow to follow the pattern, possibly in consequence of naval disruption following the Revolution. The earliest Nairne examples were adapted from the domestic barometer, with the tube mounted on a flat back, but within the lifetime of Nairne & Blunt marine barometers adopted the form common for most of the nineteenth century, with the tube enclosed within a square or round-section wooden frame.

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Authors & Contributors
Zuidervaart, Huibert Jan
Grijs, Richard de
Janni, Pietro
Taylor, Miles
Murphy, Hugh
Harland, John H.
Concepts
Sea travel
Meteorology
Technology
Ships and shipbuilding
Measuring instruments
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
Ancient
20th century, early
Medieval
17th century
Places
Great Britain
Mediterranean region
United States
Netherlands
Europe
Middle and Near East
Institutions
Great Britain. Royal Navy
British Admiralty
National Maritime Museum (Great Britain)
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