Fortin barometer

English

Etymology

Invented by Jean Nicolas Fortin.

Noun

Fortin barometer (plural Fortin barometers)

  1. A kind of barometer using a variable-displacement mercury cistern, usually constructed with a thumbscrew pressing on a leather diaphragm bottom, which compensates for displacement of mercury in the column with varying pressure.
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