Thermometer
notes: label: Description
content: Mercury in glass thermometer that reads from to 130 to 210 degrees F. One inscription on the metal frame reads “red reading mercury.” Another reads “THE PALMER CO. / CINCINNATI, O. / U.S.A.”
label: Description
content: Richard Penny Palmer, an employee of the Foster Instrument Co., purchased this Cincinnati firm from James Foster’s widow in 1872 and, in time, termed it The Thermometer Co. His son, Charles R. Palmer (ca. 1882-ca. 1947), joined the firm in 1908, and became president of the Palmer Co., a newly incorporated firm, in 1918. In 1929 he patented a red reading thermometer. This example is of that type.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio, Cincinnati
label: Associated Place
content: United States: New York, Rochester
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: 1981.0854.29
label: accession number
content: 1981.0854
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0854.29
objectType: label: Object Name
content: thermometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall:;
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 3/8 in x 2 3/8 in; 36.5125 cm x 6.0325 cm