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A George III mahogany sympiesometer, by Adie, Edinburgh, c.1810, the glazed case with...
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Description
A George III mahogany sympiesometer, by Adie, Edinburgh, c.1810, the glazed case with silvered plate, with manually operated sliding barometer height scale and record dial, Fahrenheit mercury thermometer, inscribed PATENT Adie, EDINBURGH No 902, 60cm high
Provenance: with Derek Rayment, Farndon, June 1992, £1,650.
Note: Sir Nicholas Goodison notes: Alexander Adie is described in commercial directories as an optician and he held appointments as such to William IV and Queen Victoria. He was apprenticed to his uncle John Miller who dies c.1825 and was his partner for a time at various addresses in Nicholson Street (1804-12). Instruments survive signed 'Miller and Adie'. In 1835 he took his son John into the business. He was actively interested in meteorology as early as 1816 and did a thriving business in marine barometers for the navy and in ordinary domestic cistern barometers. He is however chiefly known as the patentee and inventor of the sympiesometer. The patent was granted in 1818. This instrument was made in large numbers by both Adie ad others and it was intended for general, not only marine, use. It had the advantage of relative portability.
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