Padre Faura street in Ermita used to be called "Observatorio" because the Manila...

Padre Faura street in Ermita used to be called "Observatorio" because the Manila Observatory used to be on the Ateneo campus there. MO has since moved to QC. Faura invented a barometer for use in predicting typhoons in the Philippines in 1886. It was later patented and commercially available before World War II with a face in Spanish or English and I wonder when people stopped using this life-saving gadget later improved by Faura's successor Jose Algue, SJ. I used to find these barometers in Ermita antique shops and brought them to MO where Fr. Vic Badillo and I would check if they were still working by taking them up and down the elevator watching if the needle moved.