Thermometer
name: label: maker
content: Taylor Instrument Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Six’s maximum and minimum thermometer, made by the Taylor Instrument Co. in Rochester, N.Y. The form, introduced by the English natural philosopher, James Six (1731-1793), consists of a U-shaped glass tube with two separate temperature scales along each arm of the U. One scale records the maximum temperature encountered, while the other records the minimum temperature. The sealed glass bulb at the top of the minimum reading scale arm is filled with alcohol; the other contains a vacuum (or low pressure alcohol vapor).
label: Description
content: Ref: James Six, The Construction and Use of a Thermometer for Showing the Extremes of Temperature in the Atmosphere, during the Observer's Absence, together with Experiments and Variations of Local Heat; and other Meteorological Observations (London, 1794).
label: Description
content: Jacques W. Redway, Handbook of Meteorology (New York, 1921), pp. 188-189.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Rochester
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: John William Christopher Draper and James Christopher Draper
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.333989.02
label: catalog number
content: 333989.02
label: accession number
content: 304826
objectType: label: Object Name
content: thermometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 3/8 in x 2 7/8 in x 1 5/8 in; 31.4325 cm x 7.3025 cm x 4.1275 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 5/8 in x 2 15/16 in x 1 9/16 in; 32.0675 cm x 7.46125 cm x 3.96875 cm