FeverScan Forehead Thermometer, Diclofenac Sodium, Roxane Laboratories, Inc.
date: label: Date made
content: ca. 1999
name: label: maker
content: American Thermometer Co., Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: An inscription on the cardboard package reads in part “FeverScan / Forehead Thermometer” and “AMERICAN THERMOMETER CO. / Dayton, Ohio 45401.” FeverScan is a liquid crystal strip thermometer with temperature sensitive color bars that change color when held against the forehead. The item was available by early 1983.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1999.0098.08
label: catalog number
content: 1999.0098.08
label: accession number
content: 1999.0098
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Thermometer, forehead
label: Object Name
content: promotional device, forehead thermometer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 cm x 10.7 cm x .1 cm; 2 3/8 in x 4 3/16 in x 1/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: in x 4 1/8 in x 2 3/8 in; .0254 cm x 10.4775 cm x 6.0325 cm