Recording Pyrometer
name: label: maker
content: Brown Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: Edward Brown (1834-1905) was an Englishman who landed in New York in 1858, moved to Philadelphia, opened a small shop, and produced the first pyrometer of American design. He won a Centennial Medal in 1876, and a John Scott Medal in 1897. The firm became Edward Brown & Son in 1905, The Brown Instrument Company in 1910, and a division of Honeywell in 1934. This instrument came from the Government Printing Office. Tags on it read "BROWN ELECTRIC PYROMETER" and "THE BROWN INSTRUMENT CO. PHILADELPHIA, PA. USA."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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: PH.337010
label: catalog number
content: 337010
label: accession number
content: 1979.0222
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Recording Pyrometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 31 1/2 in x 15 1/2 in x 15 1/8 in; 80.01 cm x 39.37 cm x 38.4175 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 31 1/2 in x 15 in x 15 1/2 in; 80.01 cm x 38.1 cm x 39.37 cm