what is this smoking device mmmmm?

A still...................??

Or Thomas Edison's aeroponic prototype.

it's one of those compression chambers for people with the bends, right?

that is a steam engine.

pipe bomb?

mr.x007 said:

A still...................??

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That is what I was thinking. Some kind of alcohol producing chamber.

The device is sitting on either shock absorbers or scales like those used in truck weigh-bridges.

I reckon it is probably some super sensitive barometer at a university or research station.

My guess was a still.