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A doctor inserts a barometer, instead of a thermometer, in a patient's backside: his condition reads "Set fair". Colour process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.

A doctor asking a patient's wife if she has taken his temperature; she replies that she used the barometer to take his temperature and that, as he was very dry she gave him some beer. Wood engraving by G. King, 1911.

Clocks: James Cox's "perpetual motion" self-winding clock. Engraving by J. Lodge, 1774.

A maid bringing medicine and soup to her master who has a cold. Lithograph, 1857, after W.H. Simmons after J. Collinson.

A treatise on the aneroid, a newly invented portable barometer. With a short historical notice on barometers in general, their construction and use / By Edward J. Dent.

Special offers in eyewear / Optical Department, Gamages.

Cabinet-making: a design for the carved housing of a barometer and thermometer [?]. Pencil drawing.

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A treatise on the aneroid, a newly invented portable barometer. With a short historical notice on barometers in general, their construction and use / By Edward J. Dent.

Special offers in eyewear / Optical Department, Gamages.

Cabinet-making: a design for the carved housing of a barometer and thermometer [?]. Pencil drawing.

Cabinet-making: a design for the carved housing of a barometer and thermometer [?]. Pencil drawing.

Clocks: James Cox's "perpetual motion" self-winding clock. Engraving by J. Lodge, 1774.