Pyrometer
name: label: patented by
content: Tagliabue, Giuseppe
label: maker
content: Tagliabue, Giuseppe
notes: label: Description
content: A coal oil pyrometer determined the explosive point of a sample of coal oil—aka the temperature at which that oil burst into flames. The inscription on this example reads “PATENTED NOVR. 4, 1862 / BY G. TAGLIABUE / 296 PEARL ST., New York.” That on the frame holding the thermometer reads “G. TAGLIABUE 296 PEARL ST. NEW YORK.” Giuseppe Tagliabue (1812-1879) was an instrument maker from northern Italy who was trained in England and began in business in the United States in 1834. He showed a “patent coal oil pyrometer” at the American Institute in New York in the Fall of 1862 and took home a silver medal; he also showed the instrument at the Franklin Institute.
label: Description
content: Ref: Giuseppe Tagliabue, “Improved Apparatus for Testing Coal-Oil,” U.S. Patent 36,828 (Oct. 28, 1862).
label: Description
content: “GIUSEPPE TAGLIABUE’S PATENT COAL OIL PYROMETER, For which the Silver Medal of the American Institute was awarded,” Transactions of the American Institute. . .for the Years 1862, ‘63 (1863): 50-51. Tagliabue ad in American Druggists’ Circular and Chemical Gazette 7 (Aug. 1, 1863): 131; (Oct. 1, 1863): 163; (Dec. 1, 1863): 193; and many more.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: patented in
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: associated community
content: Italian Americans
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.315168
label: catalog number
content: 315168
label: accession number
content: 219145
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Melting Point Apparatus
label: Object Name
content: Pyrometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 1/2 in; 26.67 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 3/4 in x 3 9/16 in; 27.305 cm x 9.04875 cm