Thermometer
date: label: date made
content: after 1905
notes: label: Description
content: Mercury-in-glass thermometer with a milk white tube. The supporting brass plate reads, at top, “WILLIAMS, BROWN / & EARLE / PHILADELPHIA, PA.” and at bottom “Chas. Wilder Co. / Troy, N.Y.” It is graduated from -32 to +120 degrees, with indications for “FREEZ/ING,” “TEMPE/RATE,” “SUMR/HEAT,” and “BLOOD/HEAT.” Williams, Brown & Earle manufactured and marketed mathematical and optical instruments. The Chas. Wilder Co., which had long been manufacturing thermometers in New Hampshire, was acquired by W. & L. E. Gurley in 1905 and moved to Troy, New York.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Troy
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Measuring & Mapping
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Warshaw Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.293320.3075
label: accession number
content: 293320
label: catalog number
content: 293320.3075
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Thermometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 18.5 cm x 4.5 cm x 2 cm; 7 9/32 in x 1 25/32 in x 25/32 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 13/16 in x 1 3/4 in x 7/8 in; 17.30375 cm x 4.445 cm x 2.2225 cm