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In 1748 William Shipley of Northampton wrote to his London friend Henry Baker proposing a type of barometer in which the variations of barometric pressure would be easier to read.1 His letter to Baker and Baker’s reply are printed in the reference cited. The proposal provides an interesting problem in elementary hydrostatics even though the barometer apparently was never constructed. The Shipley proposal for a barometer is shown in Fig. 1 which is reproduced from a sketch in his letter to Baker.
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Condon, E.U. (1991). William Shipley’s Barometer (1748). In: Barut, A.O., Odabasi, H., van der Merwe, A. (eds) Selected Popular Writings of E.U. Condon. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3066-3_37
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