enow.com Web Search

  1. Ads

    related to: antique storm glass barometer how it works pictures

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Storm glass - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_glass

    A catalogue of storm glasses c. 1863. If the liquid in the glass is clear, the weather will be bright and clear. If the liquid is cloudy, the weather will be cloudy as well, perhaps with precipitation. If there are small dots in the liquid, humid or foggy weather can be expected. A cloudy glass with small stars indicates thunderstorms.

  3. Tempest prognosticator - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_prognosticator

    The tempest prognosticator, also known as the leech barometer, is a 19th-century invention by George Merryweather in which leeches are used in a barometer. The twelve leeches are kept in small bottles inside the device; when they become agitated by an approaching storm, they attempt to climb out of the bottles and trigger a small hammer which ...

  4. George Merryweather - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Merryweather

    His best-known invention was the Tempest Prognosticator—a weather predicting device also called "The Leech Barometer". [2] It consists of twelve glass bottles containing leeches, which, when disturbed by the atmospheric conditions preceding a storm, climb upwards, triggering a small whalebone hammer which rings a bell. Merryweather referred ...

  5. Barometer - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barometer

    A mercury barometer is an instrument used to measure atmospheric pressure in a certain location and has a vertical glass tube closed at the top sitting in an open mercury-filled basin at the bottom. Mercury in the tube adjusts until the weight of it balances the atmospheric force exerted on the reservoir.

  6. List of weather instruments - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_weather_instruments

    Barometer for measuring atmospheric pressure; Hygrometer for measuring humidity; Anemometer for measuring wind speed; Pyranometer for measuring solar radiation; Rain gauge for measuring liquid precipitation over a set period of time; Wind sock for measuring general wind speed and wind direction

  7. Galileo thermometer - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_thermometer

    A Galileo thermometer (or Galilean thermometer) is a thermometer made of a sealed glass cylinder containing a clear liquid and several glass vessels of varying density. The individual floats rise or fall in proportion to their respective density and the density of the surrounding liquid as the temperature changes.

  8. Your Vintage and Antique Glassware Could Be Worth a Lot of ...

    www.aol.com/lifestyle/vintage-antique-glassware...

    The most valuable glass you could find, however, is art glass—pieces not intended to be used practically as vases and such but rather meant to be art alone. Here are a couple of the most notable ...

  9. Barometric light - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barometric_light

    In order to produce barometric light, the glass tube must be very clean and the mercury must be pure. [1] If the barometer is then shaken, a band of light will appear on the glass at the meniscus of the mercury whenever the mercury moves downward. When mercury contacts glass, the mercury transfers electrons to the glass.

  1. Ads

    related to: antique storm glass barometer how it works pictures