Draper Thermograph
name: label: maker
content: Draper Manufacturing Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Daniel C. Draper (1841-1931) studied at New York University (receiving 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: 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
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.333978
label: catalog number
content: 333978
label: accession number
content: 304826
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Thermometer, Recording
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 20 3/4 in x 14 in x 4 3/4 in; 52.705 cm x 35.56 cm x 12.065 cm