Thermometer
date: label: patent date
content: 1882-01-03
notes: label: Description
content: Moritz Immisch (1838-1903) was a German electrical engineer, watchmaker, and inventor who moved to London and, in 1881 obtained a British patent for a small watch-shaped thermometer that worked somewhat like a Bourdon tube. This example belonged to Albert C. Mathews (1820-1887), a physician in Elberton, Georgia. The inscription on the face reads “Immisch / Patent / THERMOMETER / 10225.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Moritz Immish, “Volute Tube Thermometer,” U.S. Patent 251,889 (January 3, 1882).
label: Description
content: “Immisch’ Metallic Thermometer,” The British Medical Journal 2 (1885): 1119.
label: Description
content: “A New Style of Thermometer,” Scientific American 57 (1887): 20.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Nell Wilson Smith
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0114.01
label: patent number
content: 251889
label: accession number
content: 1981.0114
objectType: label: Object Name
content: thermometer, clinical
label: Other Terms
content: Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 7 in x 1 1/8 in; .9525 cm x 17.78 cm x 2.8575 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 cm x 2.5 cm; 13/32 in x 31/32 in