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Shelfmark:	19949-0000 Musée des arts et métiers-CNAM  (Paris France)	Suggestions & Corrections
Type:	instrument
Dimension:	L.: 102; Diam.: 10

Component's data
Thematic group:	Instruments
Type:	barometer
Abstract:	Barometer in frame suspended by hook from a frame mounted on four-limbed trestle support with struts. Brass plate inset in wood at top reads: "Barometre de Megnie pour Mr Lavoisier, de l'Academie R.le des Sciences &c. N° 2. 1779." With vernier in silvered-brass and centigrade mercury thermometer reading from -15 to +65.

Related components	(2)

bibliography
	journal Annales de Chimie et de Physique
		bibliographic reference	Les instruments de Lavoisier. Relation d'une visite à la Canière (Puy-de-Dome) où se trouvent réunis...
related to
	chronology A Chronology of Lavoisier's Career. Prepared by Maurice Daumas, Henry Guerlac and Carl Perrin. Edited by Marco Beretta
		event	(1779): Lavoisier acquires a new kind of barometer constructed by Mégnié....

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Attributes
Person	City	Cronology	Position
name: -	name: Paris	date/range: 1952 date of: donation epoch: 20 (2°)
name: Antoine Laurent Lavoisier resp.: owner	name: Paris	date/range: 1779 date of: construction epoch: 18 (2°)
name: Pierre Bernard Mégnié resp.: maker	name: Paris	date/range: 1779 date of: construction epoch: 18 (2°)

Subject/s
	Discipline	Topic		Argument
	Meteorology		Barometer	-

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