Thermometer
name: label: maker
content: Faichney Instrument Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: Mercury-in-glass thermometer with holder. The scale reads from 92 to 108. The inscription on the milk white back reads “56968 APEX Rectal Faichney Watertown New York.”
label: Description
content: The Glass Thermometry Company was established in Watertown, N.Y., in 1888. It became the Faichney Instrument Co. in 1920. At mid-century, the firm boasted being the largest clinical thermometer company in the world.” It was acquired by Chesebrough-Pond Inc. in 1966. In 2011, after several more corporate acquisitions and divestitures, the Watertown factory closed.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Watertown
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of William P. Evans
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-07338
label: catalog number
content: M-07338
label: accession number
content: 217731
objectType: label: Object Name
content: thermometer, clinical
label: Other Terms
content: Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5/8 in x 4 1/2 in x 5/8 in; 1.5875 cm x 11.43 cm x 1.5875 cm