A. J. ADIE EDINBURGH; AN EARLY VICTORIAN MAHOGANY BOWFRONT STICK BAROMETER

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A. J. ADIE EDINBURGH; AN EARLY VICTORIAN MAHOGANY BOWFRONT STICK BAROMETERCIRCA 1835-1845 With domed gadroon carved surmount over glazed rectangular silvered Vernier scale signed Adie & Son, Edinburgh, trunk beneath terminating in an inverted reeded caddy cistern cover with stepped ogee top mouldings and leafy bud pendant incorporating a level adjustment disc to underside 104cm highAlexander Adie is recorded in Nicholas Goodison English Barometers, 1680-1860 as being born 1774 and apprenticed to his uncle, the eminent Scottish instrument maker John Miller, in 1789. In 1804 his uncle took him into partnership under the name of Miller and Adie which continued until after Miller's death in 1815. Adie was particularly interested in meteorological instruments and is perhaps best known as the inventor of the Sympiesometer in 1818. In recognition of his work he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1819 and appointed optician to William IV and later Queen Victoria.

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