Pyrometer
name: label: maker
content: Brown, Edward
notes: label: Description
content: Patent model for Edward Brown, “Pyrometer,” U.S. Patent 130,894 (Aug. 27, 1872). The dial is 4-inches diameter, and graduated from 0 to 1500 by hundreds. The inscription reads "PYROMETER EDW. BROWN PHILADA."
label: Description
content: Edward Brown (1834-1905) was an Englishman who landed in New York in 1858, moved to Philadelphia, opened a small shop, and produced the first pyrometer of American design. He won a Centennial Medal in 1876, and a John Scott Medal from the Franklin Institute in 1897. The firm became Edward Brown & Son in 1905, and a division of Honeywell in 1934.
label: Description
content: Ref: Edna Margaret Brown, <i>Edward Brown, Inventor</i> (Philadelphia, 1957).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.308933
label: catalog number
content: 308933
label: accession number
content: 89797
label: patent number
content: 130,894
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Pyrometer
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 7/8 in x 1 7/8 in x 5 in; 14.92885 cm x 4.76885 cm x 12.7 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 7/8 in x 2 in x 5 1/4 in; 14.9225 cm x 5.08 cm x 13.335 cm