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George Adams, Mahogany Stick Barometer. (1790 Fleet Street London)

George Adams

  98.00cm high (  38.58 inches high)

*George Adams, b1750-d1795, took over the family business when his father died in 1773. He also succeeded to the title of instrument maker to George III and later became optician to the Prince of Wales. The quality of his instruments was at least as good as those of his father, and he wrote various essays and dissertations on instruments, including one on barometers, thermometers and other meteorological instruments in 1790. In these he claimed that his father was the first to apply a floating gauge to a barometer which had previously been ascribed to Jesse Ramsden.

A fine Georgian stick barometer. The well figured mahogany veneered case with moulded architectural pediment and central turned brass finial. The cistern with nicely figured mahogany cover. Silvered and engraved scale signed
‘G. Adams, Fleet Street, London’.