Recording Thermometer
date: label: date made
content: ca 1887
name: label: maker
content: Draper Manufacturing Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Daniel C. Draper (1841-1931) studied at New York University (with a PhD in 1880), apprenticed with the Novelty Iron Works, and served for many years as Director of the New York Meteorological Observatory in Central Park. In the 1880s he established the Draper Manufacturing Co., to produce registering meteorological instruments based on his designs.
label: Description
content: This example is marked "DRAPER'S SELF-RECORDING THERMOMETER 152 FRONT ST. N.Y. CITY PATENTED 1887." It is a bimetallic instrument with a flat chart (missing) that revolves once a week.
label: Description
content: Ref: Daniel Draper, “Recording Thermometer,” U.S. Patent 369,170 (1887), assigned to the Draper Manufacturing Co.
label: Description
content: Daniel Draper, “Recording-Thermometer,” U.S. Patent 369,171 (1887), assigned to the Draper Manufacturing Co.
label: Description
content: “Dr. Daniel Draper’s Contributions to Meteorology,” <i>Scientific American</i> 42 (Jan. 3, 1880): 2-3.
label: Description
content: “Dr. Daniel Draper, Weather Man, Dead,” <i>New York Times</i> (Dec. 22, 1931), p. 28.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Measuring & Mapping
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Lick Observatory
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.316942
label: catalog number
content: 316942
label: accession number
content: 229396
objectType: label: Object Name
content: thermometer, recording
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 in x 9 in; 35.56 cm x 22.86 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 1/2 in x 10 3/4 in x 4 1/2 in; 36.83 cm x 27.305 cm x 11.43 cm