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) ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. DUXBURY, Mass. (WWLP) – After being called to a report of a broken mercury barometer in Duxbury, fire officials are urging ...

A: At least 400 years, says Brent McRoberts of Texas A&M University. Barometers, which are used to measure air pressure, which in turn can give us one measuring stick of predicting the weather, were ...

Nicolas Fortin, an instrument maker in Paris in the early nineteenth century, introduced a mercury barometer with a glass and leather cistern so designed that the barometer could be safely moved from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Test your science history knowledge with this intriguing trivia question about one of meteorology's most important inventions.

Test your science history knowledge with this intriguing trivia question about one of meteorology's most important inventions. Italian physicist Evangelista Torricelli created the mercury barometer, a ...