Photometer
name: label: maker
content: Foote, Pierson & Co.
notes: label: Description
content: The Sharp-Millar photometer is a portable instrument suitable for measuring the output of lamps in service. A brass tag on this example reads “TYPE . . . SERIAL NO. 1681 / PATENT NO. 960420 / Foote Pierson & Co. / 160-162 DUANE ST. / NEW YORK.” Clayton H. Sharp (1869-1942) was a graduate of Hamilton College and Cornell University (PhD), and technical director of the Electrical Testing Laboratories in New York City. Preston S. Millar (1880-1949) was president of the Electrical Testing Laboratories.
label: Description
content: Ref: Clayton H. Sharp and Preston S. Millar, “Photometer,” U.S. Patent 960420 (June 10, 1910).
label: Description
content: “Dr. Clayton Sharp, Engineer, Was 72,” <i>New York Times</i> (May 14, 1942), p. 19.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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.319821
label: catalog number
content: 319821
label: accession number
content: 240347
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Photometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 3/8 in x 5 3/16 in x 27 3/8 in; 16.1925 cm x 13.17625 cm x 69.5325 cm