Baroscope


an instrument showing roughly the variations in atmospheric pressure.
Historical Examples

In my baroscope, I have never found the Quicksilver higher than 30.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society – Vol 1 – 1666 Various

Sometimes (I say not often) the baroscope yields not to other very great changes of the Air.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society – Vol 1 – 1666 Various

noun
any instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure, esp a manometer with one side open to the atmosphere

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