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Short & Mason were aeronautical, meteorological, surveying, and scientific instrument makers of London, England. The firm began as a partnership between Thomas Watling Short and the engineer, William James Mason, as aneroid barometer makers, and makers of other scientific instruments. The partnership was formed in 1864, and dissolved in 1900. At about this time, they began to work in partnership with Taylor Instrument Companies of Rochester, New York, USA, whose trademark Tycos they began to use, and the company continued to trade as Short & Mason.

They exhibited in the 1929 British Industries Fair, for which their catalogue entry, listed their entry as an optical, scientific, and photographic exhibit. They were listed as specialists in temperature regulators, and manufacturers of: Aeronautical, medical, meteorological, and surveying instruments; Barographs; Thermographs; Rain gauges; Pocket and military compasses; Prismatic and reflecting levels; Gas pressure gauges; Tycos sphygmomanometers.

In 1969 they merged with Taylor Instrument Companies (Europe) Ltd., of Leighton-Buzzard, Bedfordshire, England, and the name Short & Mason ceased to be used.