Thermometer
notes: label: Description
content: Mercury-in-glass thermometer with paper label reading “THE NEW COMBINATION STERILIZING THERMOMETER” and “MADE IN GERMANY.” An advertisement in the Buffalo Medical Journal (1895) noted that “this instrument ought to be in the hands of every family that has small children.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dr. Paul S. Conger In Memory of William J. Whiting
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.318999.01
label: catalog number
content: 318999.01
label: accession number
content: 318999
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Thermometer
label: Object Name
content: thermometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 26.3 cm x 2 cm; 10 3/8 in x 13/16 in
label: Measurements
content: tube: 12 1/2 in x 1 1/4 in; x 31.75 cm x 3.175 cm
label: Measurements
content: thermometer: 10 in x 3/4 in; x 25.4 cm x 1.905 cm