Paper, 'Account of the construction of a standard barometer and description of the apparatus and processes employed in the verification of barometers at the Kew Observatory' by John Welsh
Reference number: PT/53/5
Date: 22 May 1856
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Subject: Scientific Instruments
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Account of the construction of a standard barometer, and description of the apparatus and processes employed in the verification of barometers at the Kew Observatory'.
Written by Welsh at the Kew Observatory [London]. Communicated by J P [John Peter] Gassiot. Received by the Royal Society on 22 May 1856. Read 19 June 1856.
Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 8, 1857.
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- 22 May 1856
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- 14 pages
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John Welsh, Paper, 'Account of the construction of a standard barometer and description of the apparatus and processes employed in the verification of barometers at the Kew Observatory' by John Welsh, 22 May 1856, PT/53/5, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_53_5/paper-account-of-the-construction-of-a-standard-barometer-and-description-of-the-apparatus-and-processes-employed-in-the-verification-of-barometers-at-the-kew-observatory-by-john-welsh, accessed on 22 January 2026
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Manuscripts of papers published in Philosophical Transactions, 1856
November 1850 - June 1856 Reference number: PT/53
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