His first office was a tiny, windowless space from which he called 25,000 prospects. Nearly all of them said no, but he kept calling. “I never doubted myself,” he says. “Failure never entered my mind.” His first client, a utility company, paid $50 monthly.
Given his life’s passion, it’s only fitting that Myers would become an avid collector of weather instruments. He now owns what Guinness World Records says is the world’s largest collection of thermometers, more than 6,000 items, and one of the largest collections—at approximately 300—of rare and unique barometers.
Myers, who has been collecting such specimens for 37 years, admires the fact that, although his weather instruments are hundreds of years old, they’re still working instruments—and often also beautiful. “Weather has been my fascination and life’s work and love,” he notes. Continuing to collect, Myers is visiting antiques dealers these days to look for barometers from the 17th and 18th centuries to fill niches in his collection.
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