Industrial Thermometer
date: label: date made
content: ca 1923
name: label: maker
content: Taylor Instrument Co.
notes: label: Description
content: This is a short-stem instrument designed for industrial use. The brass V-shaped case is marked “Tycos” at top, and “Taylor / Instrument / Co.” at bottom. The black housing around the mercury-in-glass thermometer with a milk glass tube has a scale from 32 to 240 degrees Fahrenheit, and is marked “Tycos / ROCHESTER / N.Y. U.S.A.”
label: Description
content: Hohmann & Maurer had been making instruments of this sort since the mid-1880s, and continued doing so after being bought out by Taylor Bros. in 1896. This example was made after 1908 when the Taylor Instrument Co. introduced the Tycos trade mark and dropped the Hohmann & Maurer signature and trade mark. It came to the Smithsonian in 1923.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Rochester
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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: Taylor Instrument Companies
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.308162
label: catalog number
content: 308162
label: accession number
content: 70532
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Thermometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 in; 38.1 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 1/8 in x 2 3/8 in x 1 7/8 in; 38.4175 cm x 6.0325 cm x 4.7625 cm