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Just out of curiosity, who still has a Barometer in their home? Or a thermometer outside their window? We have an old Airguide Instrument Company barometer. My husband's grandparent's had one, and although another family member inherited it, I was able to pick one up in a thrift store. Any of you other retirees and/or boomers have one? Any other sentimental older items?
Just out of curiosity, who still has a Barometer in their home? Or a thermometer outside their window? We have an old Airguide Instrument Company barometer. My husband's grandparent's had one, and although another family member inherited it, I was able to pick one up in a thrift store. Any of you other retirees and/or boomers have one? Any other sentimental older items?
I have two barometers and several thermometeters including two outside windows. I use them to both predict weather and to keep a record of the temperature and humidity here. I also have a humidity gauge.
Since we're on the subject of old measuring instruments I wonder how many people have analog clocks and other gauges. I have a bunch of analog clocks; I wear an analog watch and have several others including a minute repeater (look it up ); that one's a pocket watch although wrist watch repeaters do exist..
Have you ever beeen on a tour of a power plant? You'll see many analog gauges. Studies indicate that workers can get a better perspective from an analog display than they can from a digital. The pressure gauge on my pressure cooker is analog. So is the pressure gauge on my model steam locomotive. If a battery-powered digital gauge for either were available I'd have no interest. Analog is not electronic so it's a safer way to measure potentially dangerous pressure.
I have dial calipers, not digital or electronic; my micrometers have the classic Vernier scale.
For those who enjoy using and reading about items that don't require electronics, often not even electricity, I suggest a look at a thread that I started last summer on the S-S & P forum. It's still an active thread.
I'm a dinosaur. I have an outdoor thermometer, analog clocks in several rooms and an analog wristwatch, a flip track phone, landline, a corded telephone in kitchen (if electricity goes out), a wind up powered radio (also for emergencies). I don't have a smart phone, GPS, ipod or MP3 player, etc. but do have a laptop and digital camera. Since I collect antiques, I also have a knifebox, teaboxes, a couple of chamber pots, an old handpainted checkerboard, and a collection of handleless coffee cups but these are for display only. But after recent vacations to Dallas and to the San Francisco Bay Area, I am seriously considering getting a smart phone with GPS before I go on another vacation to an unfamiliar area. Despite mapquest, I spent a lot of time backtracking after missing my exits.
No use for a barometer where I am.
Have always had a thermometer though, placed outside in the shade where I can see it from a window.
I like to know how much heat I'm hiding from
I purposely bought an analog alarm clock recently and my watch is analog. They're easier to read at a glance.
I love, and more or less have collected vintage kitchen gear. I use an egg beater rather than dragging an electric mixer out. I guess cooking itself is more or less a throw back anyway.
I got my first microwave only about ten years ago. I just didn't trust them.
I have both but I never look at the barometer and never really "got" how to read it. It looks great on my bookshelf next to all those old fashioned books-on-paper. LOL
In my lap sits a wooden plaque with individual analog themometer, hygrometer and barometer all made by Springfield. I picked it up in a thrift store for $4. I have analog themometers in my hallway and on the Florida room. I have a brewer's thermometer in my living room for the fun of it.
I want a full weather station but it is too easy to go to a webpage with the locals school's info on it so why bother?
All of my watches are analog though I rarely wear one...once a year if pushing it. The only digital clocks in my house are on the stove and dvd player. Digital is too sterile to me. I had a car with digital dash once and it was crazy.
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); that one's a pocket watch although wrist watch repeaters do exist..
