A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments / Explanatory of Their Scientific Principles, Method of Construction, and Practical Utility

by Enrico Angelo Lodovico Negretti; Joseph Zambra

STANDARD METEOROLOGICAL

AND OTHER

PHILOSOPHICAL INSTRUMENTS.

The marginal figures in this List and the numbers of the wood engravings refer to paragraphs in “Negretti & Zambra’s Treatise on Meteorological Instruments.”

						£	s.	d.
4	Standard Barometers, Fortin’s arrangement, as Fig. 3 with mahogany board					8	8	0
	Ditto ditto with Millemetre and English scales					9	9	0
	Ditto ditto with tube, 0·45 internal diameter and millimetre scale					10	10	0
	Observatory Standard Barometers, extra large tubes and cisterns	£25	0	0		35	0	0
	Ditto ditto arranged for observations being taken by the Cathetometer					18	18	0
	Cathetometer, for use with above					21	0	0
9	Self Compensating Standard Barometer, Fig. 6					20	0	0
10	Standard Barometer, with electrical adjustment					15	15	0
11	Pediment Barometers, Fig 7	£1	1	0		2	2	0
	Ditto ditto Fig. 8	£3	3	0		3	10	0
	Ditto ditto Fig. 9	£4	10	0		5	10	0
	Ditto ditto Fig. 10					8	10	0
	Ditto ditto ditto handsome carved mountings, in mahogany, oak, or walnut wood £8 8 0	£10	10	0		12	12	0
14	FitzRoy’s Storm or Sea Coast Fishery Barometer, Fig. 12					5	5	0
	Ditto ditto with two verniers					6	6	0
	Ditto ditto mounted in ornamental carved frames, oak, walnut, or mahogany	£6	10	0		8	8	0
19	Marine Barometers, ordinary forms, Figs. 13 and 14 £2 2s.	£2	10s.			3	3	0
	Ditto ditto Best mounted	£5	5s.			6	6	0
20	The Board of Trade or Kew Marine Barometer, Fig. 15, £4 4s.	£5	5s.			6	6	0
22	Negretti and Zambra’s FitzRoy Marine or Gun Barometer, Fig. 16, with N. and Z.’s Patent Porcelain Scales, as used in Her Majesty’s Navy					5	10	0
	Extra Tube for ditto					1	15	0
25	Negretti and Zambra’s Farmer’s Barometer or Domestic Weather Glass, Fig. 17					2	10	0
28	Negretti and Zambra’s Miner’s Barometers £1 1s.	£2	2s.			3	3	0
31	Dial or Wheel Barometers, Figs. 18, 19, 20, 21 £3 3s.	£4	4s.			5	5	0
	Ditto ditto in carved ornamental mountings £5 10s. £6 6s.	£8	8s.			10	10	0
	Ditto ditto rosewood, inlaid with pearl or metal. Made to order, Figs. 22 and 23. Price varying with size, &c.
37	Gay Lussac’s Syphon Tube Mountain Barometer	£6	6	0		8	8	0
32	Standard Syphon Barometer, Gay Lussac’s arrangement, Fig. 24					5	5	0
38	Negretti and Zambra’s Standard Mountain Barometer, with Fortin’s cistern, with tripod stand and travelling case, Fig. 30					10	10	0
34	Barograph, or Self-registering Barometer, with syphon mercurial tube. Negretti and Zambra’s improved arrangement, Fig. 26	18	18	0		25	0	0
	Negretti and Zambra’s Self-recording Aneroid Barometer, with Clock					22	0	0
	48. ANEROID BAROMETERS.
	Aneroid Barometers, with card dials 4½ inches diameter, best quality.					2	10	0
	Ditto ditto with silvered metal dial					3	0	0
	Ditto ditto with ditto and thermometer					3	10	0
	Ditto ditto ditto with corrected scale, as supplied by Negretti and Zambra to the Royal Navy					5	5	0
	Aneroid Barometers, with elegantly-chased dials					4	4	0
	Ditto ditto with raised ring on dial					5	5	0
	Ditto ditto ditto with thermometer					6	6	0
	Aneroid Barometer, for altitude measurements with revolving ring, carrying index, range of scale 20,000 feet 4½ inches diameter, with magnifier					8	8	0
	POCKET ANEROID BAROMETERS. Fig. 34.
49	Pocket Aneroid Barometer, 2¾ inches diameter, with silvered metal scale					3	3	0
	Ditto ditto for measuring altitudes to 10,000 feet compensated for temperature, in leather case					5	5	0
	Ditto ditto ditto to 20,000 feet, with magnifier					6	6	0
50	WATCH-SIZE ANEROID BAROMETERS in gilt metal cases (see figure 35.)
	Watch-Size Aneroid Barometer, weather range	£3	3	0		4	4	0
	Ditto ditto of best construction, extra thin, for meteorological observations or altitude measurements to 10,000 feet					5	5	0
	Ditto ditto ditto to 20,000 feet, compensated for temperature					6	6	0
	Either of the above Watch-size Barometers may be had in Stout Silver Cases at a cost of £2 2s. extra
	Watch-size Aneroid Barometers in Solid Gold, highly-finished cases. £15 15s. to £21.
	Table Stands for Aneroid Barometers of Carved Oak or other woods, 10s. 6d., 25s., 35s., to £5 5s.
	Ships’ Aneroid Barometers, in suitable mountings £2 10s. £3 3s. £5 5s. £6 6s.
47	Sympiesometer, for Ship use	£3	3	0		4	10	0
	Ditto ditto Pocket form, Fig. 32					4	4	0
	The Sympiesometer is now rarely used, the Aneroid Barometer being found equally sensitive and less liable to derangement.
56	Independent Standard Thermometers, Fig. 36					5	5	0
57	Standard Thermometers, for Boiling Point Apparatus					1	10	0
	Chemists’ or Brewers’ Standard Reference Thermometers	£1	1s.			2	2	0
47	Chemical Thermometers, divided on the stem. Fig. 48.		10s.	6d.		0	15	0
	Chemical Thermometers, Boxwood Scale 7s. 6d.		10s.	6d.		0	12	6
64	Thermometers on Boxwood Scales, Fig. 37. 1s. 1s. 6d. 2s. 6d.		3s.	6d.		0	4	6
	Ditto ditto larger sizes		7s.	6d.		0	12	6
	Ditto ditto Engraved glass scales, Fig. 39 15s. £1 1s.	£1	5s.			1	10	0
	POCKET THERMOMETERS, IN VARIOUS MOUNTINGS.
	Fig. 38 10s. 6d. Fig. 40 10s. 6d. 15s. Fig. 41 5s. 6d. 8s. 6d. 12s. 6d.
63	Thermometers of extreme Sensitiveness, 15s.	£1	10s.			2	2	0
	Drawing Room or Mantel Thermometers, various mountings, Figs. 42 and 43. 12s. 6d. 15s. £1 1s. £1 10s.	£2	2s.			2	10	0
	Bracket Window Thermometers, Fig. 46 12s. 6d. 15s.	£1	1s.			1	10	0
	Bath Thermometers, Figs. 44		7s.	6d.		0	15	0
66	Sugar Boiling Thermometers £1 12s.	£2	2s.			3	3	0
67	Earth Thermometers, Fig. 51	£1	10s.			2	2	0
	Hot Bed Ditto 12s. 6d.	£1	5s.			1	10	0
68	Marine Thermometer, Fig. 52 7s. 6d.		8s.	6d.		0	10	6
65	Super Heated or Steam Pressure Thermometers, Fig. 74, Figs. 49 and 50 £1 5s. £1 10s.	£2	2s.			2	10	0
	SELF-REGISTERING THERMOMETERS FOR HEAT.
72	Negretti and Zambra’s Patent Standard Maximum Self-Registering Thermometer,[21] Fig. 54					1	1	0
72	Negretti and Zambra’s Patent Maximum Thermometer, on boxwood scale					0	10	6
	Ditto, ditto, on Negretti and Zambra’s Patent Solid Porcelain or Metal Scales on oak mounting					0	12	6
70	Rutherford’s Maximum Thermometer, on boxwood or metal scale, with steel index 5s. 6d.		7s.	6d.		0	10	6
71	Phillip’s Maximum Thermometer, on boxwood or metal scale, with air index 7s. 6d.		10	6		0	12	6
	SELF-REGISTERING THERMOMETERS FOR COLD.
73	Negretti and Zambra’s Standard Minimum Self-Registering Thermometer, Fig. 55					1	1	0
73	Rutherford’s Minimum Thermometer, on boxwood or metal scale 3s. 6d. 5s. 6d.		7s.	6d.		0	10	6
73	Rutherford’s Minimum Thermometer, on Negretti and Zambra’s Patent solid porcelain scale		10s.	6d.		0	12	6
	Ditto, on Negretti and Zambra’s porcelain or metal scales and oak mounting					0	12	6
74	Negretti and Zambra’s Horticultural Self-Registering Thermometer. The scale is made of stout zinc, enclosing the tube; the figures and divisions are boldly marked for quickly and easily reading the indications, Fig. 56					0	3	6
83	Negretti and Zambra’s Patent Solar Radiation Thermometer, Fig. 63					1	5	0
84	Ditto, ditto, ditto, in vacuo, Fig. 64					1	10	0
	Ditto, ditto, ditto, improved form, with test gauge					2	2	0
85	Negretti and Zambra’s Terrestrial Radiation Thermometer					1	5	0
	Brass Stands for above, Fig. 65					0	5	0
76 and 77	Negretti and Zambra’s Patent Mercurial Minimum Thermometers	£2	10s.			2	2	0
81	Maxima and Minima Thermometers, on Sixe’s arrangement, Fig. 62, various forms of mounting 12s. 6d. 14s. 21s.		30s.			2	2	0
	Pocket Maxima and Minima Thermometers, Negretti and Zambra’s Patent, in convenient cases	£2	2s.			2	10	0
89	Deep Sea Registering Thermometer, with Negretti and Zambra’s improved protected bulb, in copper cylinder, Fig. 69.					2	10	0
89[21]	Negretti and Zambra’s Improved Deep Sea Thermometer, with vulcanite mountings, in copper cylinder, with door, small size					2	5	0
90	Negretti and Zambra’s Patent Recording Deep Sea Thermometer					10	10	0
91	Ditto, ditto, ditto Recording Thermometer					4	4	0
92	Ditto, ditto, ditto Hygrometer					6	6	0
93	Improved Boiling Point Mountain Thermometer, or Hypsometric Apparatus, with Tables, Figs. 72 and 73, in leather case with strap					5	5	0
	Extra Thermometer for Ditto					1	10	0
106	Negretti and Zambra’s Standard Wet and Dry Bulb Hygrometer, Fig. 79					2	2	0
	Wet and Dry Bulb Hygrometers, various mountings 30s. 25s. 21s.		14s.			0	10	6
	Pocket Hygrometers, in box	£2	2s.			2	10	0
103	Daniell’s Hygrometer, Fig. 77					3	3	0
104	Regnault’s Hygrometer, Fig. 78	£3	10s.			5	5	0
	Aspirator for Ditto	£1	15s.			2	15	0
110	Howard’s Rain Gauge, has a 5-inch copper Funnel, with turned brass rim fitted to a stout stone-ware or glass bottle, with a graduated glass measure, divided to 100ths of an inch					0	10	6
	Symons’ Portable Rain Gauge, (5-inch) with graduated glass measure, japanned tin					0	10	6
	Ditto ditto in stout copper					0	15	0
111	Glaisher’s Rain Gauge, the receiving surface is 8-inches diameter, of stout japanned metal, with graduated glass measure, Fig. 84					1	1	0
	Ditto ditto, of stout copper					1	10	0
	Receiving Pots for ditto, extra 2s. and 3s. 6d.
113	Rain Gauge, having a receiving surface of 12 inches diameter, and graduated glass gauge tube, divided to hundredths of an inch, in japanned metal, with brass tap					2	10	0
	Ditto ditto, Fig. 85, in copper					3	10	0
	Ditto ditto, with sliding rod instead of graduated tube, japanned tin					2	2	0
	Rain Gauges, of any form or area made to order, with suitable measuring glasses.
123	Lind’s Anemometer, Fig. 86					2	2	0
125	Robinson’s Anemometer, Fig. 87					3	3	0
	Ditto ditto, Improved arrangement	£4	10s.			5	15	0
	Ditto ditto, with clutch movement, Fig. 88					6	15	0
	Negretti and Zambra’s Improved Air Meter, of extreme sensitiveness, very portable					4	4	0
	Large Air Meters made to order.
127	Osler’s Self-Registering Anemometer and Rain Gauge, Fig. 89	£84 to				150	0	0
128	Berkley’s Anemometers fitted up to order, to suit the Observatory.
131	Gold Leaf Electrometer, Fig. 90					1	1	0
133	Peltier’s Electrometer					4	4	0
134	Bohnenberger’s Electroscope, Fig. 91					8	8	0
135	Thompson’s Electrometer, to order
	Lightning Conductors fitted up to order.
142	Ozone Cage, Fig. 92					0	18	0
	Ditto ditto, copper					1	5	0
146	Leslie’s Differential Thermometer, Fig. 93	£1	10s.			2	2	0
148	Thermometer Stand (Glaisher’s)					3	3	0
149	Thermometer Screen for Sea use					3	3	0
150	Anemoscope, or Portable Vane, Fig. 94					2	5	0
151	Evaporating Dish, Fig. 95					1	2	6
157	Sea Water Hydrometers, Board of Trade Marine, Figs. 96 and 97					0	5	6
158	Newman’s Self-Registering Tide Gauge, Fig. 158, fitted to the Building to order			From		50	0	0

Further Information as to Price, &c., will be found in
NEGRETTI & ZAMBRA’S
ENCYCLOPÆDIC CATALOGUE
OF
MATHEMATICAL, PHILOSOPHICAL, OPTICAL, PHOTOGRAPHIC,
AND
STANDARD
METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS,
Containing very numerous Comparative Tables of Reference,
and Illustrated by upwards of
ELEVEN HUNDRED ENGRAVINGS.
Royal 8vo. Cloth, Gilt Lettered—Price 5s. 6d.

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Footnotes:

[1] Second Number of “Meteorological Papers,” issued by the Board of Trade.

[2] With reference to these barometers, we have received the subjoined testimonial, with permission to use it as we please.