Thermometer
name: label: maker
content: Huddleston, John S. F.
notes: label: Description
content: Mercury in glass thermometer with scale that reads from -5 to +110 degrees. A paper label on the cardboard tube reads, in part, “HUDDLESTON” and “Hanover St. Boston.” John S. F. Huddleston (1818-1900) was born in England, moved to Massachusetts at a young age, and became a barometer and thermometer maker in Boston. The firm he founded continued after his death.
label: Description
content: Ref: John S. F. Huddleston, “Improvement in Thermometers,” U.S. Patent 119,442 (Jan. 22, 1878).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: B.A. Keppel
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0311.299
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0311.299
label: accession number
content: 1985.0311
objectType: label: Object Name
content: thermometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: container: 8 in x 9/16 in; 20.32 cm x 1.42875 cm