Pyrometer
date: label: date made
content: 1888
name: label: maker
content: Brown, Edward
notes: label: Description
content: Edward Brown (1834-1905) was an Englishman who landed in New York in 1858, opened a small shop in Philadelphia, and produced the first pyrometer of American design. He won a Centennial Medal in 1876, and a John Scott Medal from the Franklin Institute in 1897. The firm became Edward Brown & Son in 1905, the Brown Instrument Co. in 1910, and a division of Honeywell in 1934.
label: Description
content: The inscription on the dial of this example reads “STANDARD PYROMETER / No. R 5365 / EDWARD BROWN, PHILADA. / PATENTED SEPT. 20, 1881 / DEC. 4, 1888.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Edward Brown, “Hot-Blast Pyrometer,” U.S. Patent 247,240 (September 20, 1881).
label: Description
content: Edward Brown, “Pyrometer,” U.S. Patent 393,963 (December 4, 1888).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.315031
label: catalog number
content: 315031
label: accession number
content: 214264
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pyrometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 17 in x 1 3/4 in; 43.18 cm x 4.445 cm
label: Measurements
content: dial: 5 in; 12.7 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/8 in x 20 in x 6 1/2 in; 15.5575 cm x 50.8 cm x 16.51 cm