Solar Radiation Thermometer
date: label: date made
content: ca 1870-1900
name: label: maker
content: Salleron, Jules
notes: label: Description
content: Mercury-in-glass thermometer with a brass collar at the lower end of the tube. The milk white scale is marked “Centigrade” and “J. Salleron 24 Rue Pavee (au Marais) Paris” and carries a scale extending from -20 to +82 degrees Centigrade. The protective glass tube is marked “1 26.”
label: Description
content: Jules Salleron began manufacturing precision instruments in 1855, moved to the address on this thermometer in 1860, and won top honors, especially for his meteorological instruments, at international exhibitions in the 1870s. Now trading as Dujardin-Salleron Laboratoires, the firm specializes in precision instruments applied to oenology.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Thermometers and Hygrometers
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content: Measuring & Mapping
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: U.S. Weather Bureau
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.317458
label: catalog number
content: 317458
label: accession number
content: 230396
objectType: label: Object Name
content: thermometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/2 in; 16.51 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 5/8 in x 3/16 in; 16.8275 cm x .47625 cm