A RARE EARLY 20th-CENTURY CYCLONOMETER BY HUGHES & SON, LONDON
with 6in. silvered aneroid barometer inscribed COMPENSATED / THE CYCLONOMETER / No.531, with rotating bevelled glass scale divided for different dates, latitude settings and storm distances, blued-steel indicator with gold marker, set in an oxidised-brass bed plate contained within mahogany box with ivorine maker's label inscribed Hughes & Son, Opticians, 59 Fenchurch Street, London., the hinged lid containing an ivorine-backed thermometer and an adjustable cyclonometer indicator -- 4½ x 8½in. (11.5 x 21.5cm.)

Designed to give sailors early warning of typhoons and cyclones, this instrument seems to have been developed around 1912 with Hughes & Son issuing this version from the mid-1920s. Alternate names are the 'barocyclonometer' or 'typhoon barometer'.

Condition Report
Fine condition throughout with no apparent losses or damage.

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