Thermometer
date: label: date made
content: after 1891
name: label: maker
content: R. Fuess
notes: label: Description
content: This unusual mercury-in-glass thermometer has a squiggle in the stem. The milk-white back of the tube carries a scale that extends from -2 to +2.5 degrees graduated in tenths. This is marked “CENTIGRADE” and “R. FUESS, BERLIN-STEGLITZ” and on the back “Vol. bis 0=127” An auxiliary mercury-in-glass thermometer mounted upside down is marked “CENTIGRADE” and carries a scale that extends from -20 to +50 degrees. A metal band around both tubes is marked “No. 506.” The whole is encased in an outer glass tube.
label: Description
content: Rudolf Fuess began in business in 1865, and moved to Steglitz, a suburb of Berlin, in 1891.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Berlin, Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Steglitz
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Thermometers and Hygrometers
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content: Measuring & Mapping
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: H.B. Instrument Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.318488
label: catalog number
content: 318488
label: accession number
content: 235074
objectType: label: Object Name
content: deep sea thermometer
label: Object Name
content: thermometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 1/2 in; 31.75 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 3/4 in x 3/4 in; 32.385 cm x 1.905 cm