Physicists like to share the legend of a professor who asked students how they might determine the height of a building using a barometer. The story goes on to list some of the ways you might do that.

Portland State barometer reaches for the sky, and the record books Discarded glass pipes, off-the-shelf trusses and a vision propelled PSU instrument tech Tom Bennett to build a 40+foot barometer in ...

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