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 ...

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 ...

Lum Woodruff, a resident of Ann Arbor, Michigan, who reported weather observations to the Smithsonian Institution, patented a portable barometer that proved to be extremely popular. Its key feature ...

Euro MPs have signalled the end of traditional barometers, in a move to ban the sale of products containing mercury across the EU. The parliament's environment committee rejected a bid to exclude ...

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 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 ...

ALBANY, N.Y. – Careful with that antique clock. It could pose a mercury hazard. The silvery, skittering, and toxic liquid can be found in some antiques. Mirrors can be backed with mercury and tin; ...

The silvered plate at the top of this simple wood frame reads “B. PIKE & SONS / 518 BROADWAY / NEW YORK.” The barometer scale extends from 27 to 31 inches of mercury; it is graduated by tenths and ...