I don't know about you, but I've been a regular watcher of the local TV news for decades. The news and sports are well and good, but the weather forecast is always the main event. When the temps start ...

It happened 375 years ago. Evangelista Torricelli, a student of Galileo, invented the mercury barometer in 1643. And surprisingly, it was amazingly similar to the mercury barometers in use today.

Most people walk past antique barometers at estate sales without a second glance. They see an old wooden instrument on a wall ...

It happened 375 years ago. Evangelista Torricelli, a student of Galileo, invented the mercury barometer in 1643. And surprisingly, it was amazingly similar to the mercury barometers in use today.

STRASBOURG, France (Reuters) - Tapping a barometer to check the weather may become a thing of the past after the European Parliament on Tuesday adopted new rules to scrap the use of mercury and ...

1644: Italian physicist Evangelista Torricelli demonstrates the principles of the mercury barometer, an instrument he invented the previous year. In 1641, Torricelli was working as an assistant to ...

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MACON, Ga. — High pressure and low pressure systems dictate most of the weather in Central Georgia. To measure pressure in the atmosphere meteorologists use a barometer. If you split the word ...

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