Thermometer Cards
notes: label: Description
content: Michael Finnell was a thermometer maker in New York City who, in 1861, obtained patent protection for mercury thermometers with cardboard scales. This box of those cards came from the Draper family home in Hasting-on-Hudson, N.Y.
label: Description
content: Ref: Michael A. Finnell, “Improvement in Thermometers,” U.S. Patent 33,035 (Dec. 17, 1861).
label: Description
content: “Recent American Inventions,” <i>Scientific American</i> 6 (1862): 12.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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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.333989.06
label: catalog number
content: 333989.06
label: accession number
content: 304826
objectType: label: Object Name
content: thermometer cards
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: 15 cards: 6 7/8 in x 2 1/2 in; 17.4625 cm x 6.35 cm
label: Measurements
content: 5 cards: 5 1/2 in x 1 in; 13.97 cm x 2.54 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in storage box: 3 1/8 in x 7 1/2 in x 3 1/16 in; 7.9375 cm x 19.05 cm x 7.77875 cm