I don't know about you, but I've been a regular watcher of the local TV news for decades. The news and sports are well and good, but the weather forecast is always the main event. When the temps start ...

If you've always dreamed of owning a stunning piece of British nautical history, now is your chance – but it won't come cheap. A barometer owned by the legendary Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton ...

1644: Italian physicist Evangelista Torricelli demonstrates the principles of the mercury barometer, an instrument he invented the previous year. In 1641, Torricelli was working as an assistant to ...

If you’ve experienced more headaches than usual lately, blame Washington, DC’s whipsaw weather: changes in barometric pressure may have contributed to your agony. And while it’s pointless to get mad ...

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Every fashionable 18th century gentleman possessed a barometer; a scientific instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure was both decorative and practical in the days before weather forecasts. Now ...

A PORTABLE barometer made by the well-known clockmaker Daniel Quare (1649-1724) has been lent by Mr. K. Meyrick, of Corbridge-on-Tyne, to the Science Museum, South Kensington. The barometer is an ...

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STRASBOURG, France (Reuters) - Tapping a barometer to check the weather may become a thing of the past after the European Parliament on Tuesday adopted new rules to scrap the use of mercury and ...

Aneroid barometer: An instrument that measures air pressure by detecting the movements of a thin, hollow, partially evacuated metal disk that expands and contracts as air pressure changes. Mayor signs ...