Mercury Stick Barometer made by Horn & Thornthwaite instrument makers. The body is made of oak with displays for the barometer and integral thermometer of engraved bone. The Barometer is calbrated ...

Mercury can be found in a variety of non-laboratory items such as fluorescent light bulbs, thermometers, older pressure gauges, plumbing traps, manometers, barometer, thermostats, capacitors, and ...

Clock pendulums might be weighted with embedded vials of mercury; and barometers, thermometers and lamps may have mercury in their bases for ballast. The problem is that mercury in old items can ...

Toriccelli also went on to develop the mercury barometer, an instrument used to measure atmospheric pressure. A barometer also monitors variations in atmospheric pressure. As air becomes thinner ...