Our take: This simple aneroid dial barometer is affordably priced and also includes a thermometer and a hygrometer. What we like: Large, easy-to-read display. Can be mounted anywhere indoors.

If you want to start with the most common weather gift, it's the outdoor thermometer. Make sure it looks like it has the correct temperature in the store when you buy it. Mark Torregrossa As you ...

Top barometer for the money. ThermoPro TP67A Waterproof Weather Station. What you need to know: Composed of a barometer, hygrometer and thermometer, this affordably priced option provides a good ...

The first mercury barometer was created in the 1600s by an Italian physicist and mathematician Evangelista Torricelli. was inspired by Galileo Galilei, who built a thermometer that measured ...

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 ...

Dear Mike, Your mercury barometer is a refinement of the original, invented in 1643 by Evangelista Torricelli. Mercury was first used in thermometers in 1709 by […] Skip to content. All Sections.