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Thermometrical barometer Size:L: 80 x 60cm Jefferson Davies was elected presidentPlate 7 from the paper 'Description of a thermometrical barometer for measuring altitudes' by Francis John Hyde Wollaston, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 107 (1817), pp. 183 196. The figures show the fully assembled instrument (figure 7) with details of components including the thermometer and a Vernier scale. Original: ink on paper. 1817