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February 12, 2013

Engineering crew builds PSU a 40-foot barometer

By STUART TOMLINSON
The Oregonian

PORTLAND — When it's finished, what its designer hopes will qualify as the world's tallest barometer will begin measuring the atmospheric pressure in the glass atrium of Portland State University's Engineering Building.

Tom Bennett, an instrument technician at PSU's Maseeh College of Engineering & Computer Science, came up with the idea two years ago.


 
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