METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENT
BAROMETER BY LUFFT

Typ 210 compensiert

TRAVEL BAROMETER ALTIMETER

 model no. 43699

GERMAN MECHANICAL PRESICION: LUFFT STUTTGART

MANUFACTURER:

Gotthilf Lufft  (1848-1921) was in his younger years a technical assistant at the  Polytechnikum in Stuttgart. He was responsible for the preparation  of scientific experiments and maintenance of instruments and  equipement. In 1873 he bought an optician shop in Stuttgart, where  he started the manufacturing of aneroid barometers. Germany imported  up to that date such barometers from France.

The work shop  became too small, after which he founded in 1881 the "Mech.  Werkstatt G. Lufft" where aneroid barometers, compasses, hygrometers  and other meteorological instruments where manufactured. In 1891 he  moved his business to a new and bigger location in Stuttgart.

Gotthilf Lufft  was a real entrepreneur, always looking for new business. Together  with the Nagel brothers he founded the "Contessa-Camera-Werke" which  manufactured camaras. In 1926 they merged with C.P. Goerz and eight  other camera producers to "ZEISS-IKON AG". On 23.05.1921 Gotthilf  Lufft died.

After WW I, the  son of law of Gotthilf Lufft, Dr. Richard Möller-Lufft (1869-1944)  was responsible for rebuilding the company. After having been active  in France also by the acquisition of "Etablissements E. Hüe in  Paris" up to 1939, all activities were concentrated in the pre-WW II  period in Stuttgart. During WW II large numbers of aneroid  barometers were produced.

After WW II the company was rebuild again by Dipl. Ing. Erich  Möller-Lufft. High quality and high quality were the key words for  the products Lufft made. In 1986 the production of mechanical  aneroid barometers was ended. Nowadays Lufft is one of the leading  companies in the field of climatological measuring technologies.

MATERIAL:

 BRASS METALL,

chromium plated

CONDITION:

SUPERB CONDITION. FULLY FUNCTIONAL

Altimeter  for mountain hikers, mountaineers or for the aeronautics, airplanes,  pilots.

Very well received pocket barometer and altimeter with a rotatable marking  ring.  And of course for collectors of old barometers and weather  instruments. These old pocket barometers are very rare!

The model of highest quality from the series of Lufft:

 The movement is compensiert

MEASURES (APP.):

Diameter 52 mm, height of approx. 15 mm
Measurement range to 5000 m.