Minimum Thermometer
name: label: maker
content: J. J. Hicks
notes: label: Description
content: Alcohol-in-glass Rutherford-type thermometer mounted on a white porcelain plate that is marked "575" and with the M/O monogram of the British Meteorological Office and "J. HICKS, 8, 9 & 10. HATTON GARDEN LONDON" and an monogram. The plate is also graduated every 5 degrees Fahrenheit from -20 to +110. The thermometer stem is marked "575" and with the M/O monogram; and graduated every degree Fahrenheit from -25 to +110. The whole is mounted on a wooden base that has metal guards protecting the bulb, and that once had two metal loops so that it could be hung horizontally.
label: Description
content: James J. Hicks (1837-1916) apprenticed with Casella and rose to the position of foreman before beginning in business on his own. He rented a shop at 8 Hatton Garden in 1864 and expanded to 8, 9 & 10 Hatton Garden in the 1880s.
label: Description
content: Ref: Anita McConnell, <i>King of the Clinicals. The Life and Times of J. J. Hicks (1837-1916)</i> (York, 1998).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
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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.317471
label: accession number
content: 230396
label: catalog number
content: 317471
objectType: label: Object Name
content: thermometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: tube: 12 in; 30.48 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 3/4 in; 34.925 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/4 in x 13 5/8 in x 1 1/4 in; 8.255 cm x 34.6075 cm x 3.175 cm