1. Main Difference – Aneroid vs Mercury Barometer

2. This mercury Barometer was invented back in 1643 by a …

3. Photo: A Torricellian Barometer (sometimes called a mercury Barometer) is an inverted (upside-down) glass tube standing in a bath of mercury

4. There are three common types of Barometers you might find for sale today: the Torricellian (mercury) barometer, the aneroid barometer, and the electric barometer.

5. A mercury Barometer works on the same principle as the water Barometer, but is much easier to read and more sensitive than a water Barometer

6. Two kinds of Barometers are in common use, a mercury barometer and an aneroid barometer.The first one makes use of a long narrow glass tube filled with mercury supported in a container of mercury, and the second one makes use of …

7. To make these measurements, the following instruments were generally used: Aneroid barometer constructed by Otto Bohne in Berlin Mercury barometer made by the firm of Rudolf Fuess in Berlin, Aneroid barograph by Richard Frères in Paris, Three-part aspiration psychrometer from Fuess, consisting of one dry and two alternately moistened thermometers, that were kept in a constant stream of air by a clockwork ventilation mechanism, Thermometer made by Fuess.