Thermometer
date: label: date made
content: 1849-1879
name: label: maker
content: Green, James
notes: label: Description
content: Small mercury-in-glass thermometer mounted on a flat ivory plate that is marked "J. GREEN N.Y." and graduated every degree [Fahrenheit?] from +185 to +245. There are no graduations or marks on the stem. It was made between 1849 (when James Green began in business in New York) and 1879 (when he took his nephew into partnership and began trading as J. & H. J. Green). It came to the Smithsonian from the U.S. Military Academy.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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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: U.S. Military Academy
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.316452
label: accession number
content: 223721
label: catalog number
content: 316452
objectType: label: Object Name
content: thermometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/4 in; 10.795 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 13/16 in x 7/16 in x 5/16 in; 12.22375 cm x 1.11125 cm x .79375 cm