Solar Radiation Thermometer
date: label: date made
content: ca 1875-1897
name: label: maker
content: Salleron, Jules
notes: label: Description
content: This is a mercury-in-glass thermometer with a brass collar at the lower end of the tube. The milk-white scale is marked “Centigrade” and “J. Salleron 24 Rue Pavee (au Marais) Paris” and carries a scale extending from -20 to +82 degrees Centigrade. The protective glass tube is marked “1 26”. Jules Salleron was a prominent precision instrument maker in Paris.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
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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.314559
label: catalog number
content: 314559
label: accession number
content: 204612
objectType: label: Object Name
content: thermometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 18 in; 45.72 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 18 1/2 in x 1 3/4 in; 46.99 cm x 4.445 cm