Locked Cottage, Turning Drum: The Barograph That Returned on Its Own
Locked Cottage, Turning Drum: The Barograph That Returned on Its Own
Cold and exposed on November 9, 2019, a meter reader saw a brass barograph turning its drum on the interior windowsill of a locked cottage sixty miles from its owner - and no one had a key. How did a 1906 London-made pressure recorder, listed as stored in a crawl space for decades, end up recording weather inside a sealed house?
In this episode, we walk through the sequence of documented events from Angela Zimmerman's purchase of the keeper's cottage to the meter reader's photographs, laying out the physical facts and the…
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