The largest barometer in the world was recently set .un in the Italian, town of Faenza the birthrdaco of Torncelli, who discovered the barometer and the "vacnum" which pcrpetua os bis name The licniid used is purified oil rendered free from air, and tin* gives.n column over 11 metres in height. Owing to the very -mall amount of evaporation an oil barometer is much more accurate than one filled with any other liquid excep mercury, and the long column makes it very sensitive.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1072, 10 March 1911, Page 8
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