The balloon slowly rose till the aneroid marked a height of fifteen hundred feet.
"Faces and Places"
Henry William Lucy
Amongst a miscellaneous and imposing collection of scientific instruments, he was the pleased possessor of an aneroid.
"Faces and Places"
Henry William Lucy
And then I smoked another pipe and watched the aneroid and tried not to think at all, till with a start I realised we were considerably less than a thousand feet above-the land or the sea?
"The Man From the Clouds"
J. Storer Clouston