any ideas what this is. ....??????

Big Stu 12

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Staying at a 16th Centry Hall and hanging on the wall in the Kitchen is this........

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Any ideas... ????????
 

Goatboy

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Yup, always wanted one, it's a Vatten Water Barometer.
The concept that decreasing atmospheric pressure predicts stormy weather, postulated by Lucien Vidi, provides the theoretical basis for a weather prediction device called a "storm glass" or a "Goethe barometer" (named for Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, the renowned German writer and polymath who developed a simple but effective weather ball barometer using the principles developed by Torricelli).
The weather ball barometer consists of a glass container with a sealed body, half filled with water. A narrow spout connects to the body below the water level and rises above the water level. The narrow spout is open to the atmosphere. When the air pressure is lower than it was at the time the body was sealed, the water level in the spout will rise above the water level in the body; when the air pressure is higher, the water level in the spout will drop below the water level in the body. A variation of this type of barometer can be easily made at home.[SUP]"[/SUP]
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Big Stu 12

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Thank you peeps.... The great power of bcuk does it again......


So where do I plug it in to lap top to down load results.... :)
 

Macaroon

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Excellent! Yet again I've learnt something completely new to me just by having a browse through the site :)
 

Goatboy

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You can also get (or make I suppose) weather sticks like these.

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