Thermopile
name: label: maker
content: Green, James
notes: label: Description
content: A thermopile (aka thermo-multiplier or thermoelectric pile) converts thermal into electrical energy. Leopoldo Nobili and Macedonio Melloni presented an example to the Académie des Sciences in Paris in 1831. The “J. Green New York” inscription on this example refers to James Green (b. 1808), an Englishman who opened an instrument shop in Baltimore in the 1830s, moved to New York City in 1849, and retired in 1885.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: John William Christopher Draper and James Christopher Draper
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.333973
label: catalog number
content: 333973
label: accession number
content: 304826
objectType: label: Object Name
content: thermopile, radiation
label: Object Name
content: thermopile,
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 1/4 in x 9 1/2 in x 2 3/4 in; 28.575 cm x 24.13 cm x 6.985 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 5/16 in x 9 5/8 in x 2 9/16 in; 21.11375 cm x 24.4475 cm x 6.50875 cm