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 ...

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 ...

Euro-MPs took the pressure off the traditional British barometer today by voting down European Commission calls to ban the use of mercury in thermometers. The silvery liquid metal was targeted because ...

It hangs in the vestibule, next to the old navigation charts. The antique barometer is a decorative accent, in the era of 24-hour weather news. In recent years, though, it has become a lurking ...

Most people walk past antique barometers at estate sales without a second glance. They see an old wooden instrument on a wall ...

It happened 375 years ago. Evangelista Torricelli, a student of Galileo, invented the mercury barometer in 1643. And surprisingly, it was amazingly similar to the mercury barometers in use today.

MACON, Ga. — High pressure and low pressure systems dictate most of the weather in Central Georgia. To measure pressure in the atmosphere meteorologists use a barometer. If you split the word ...

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 ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Theodore Ruggles Timby (1822-1909) ...