Recording Thermometer
name: label: maker
content: Negretti & Zambra
notes: label: Description
content: Negretti & Zambra introduced this type of instrument in 1874. The stem is U-shaped, with a small bend above the cylindrical bulb. In use, the thermometer would be hung with the bulb down. Rotating it one full turn would cause the mercury in the first half of the tube to flow into the second half, thereby recording the temperature at that moment. In use, it might be connected to a clock that would invert it at a selected time.
label: Description
content: In this example, the mercury-in-glass thermometer is mounted on an ebony plate marked "NEGRETTI & ZAMBRA LONDON" and "RECORDING THERMOMETER." A white porcelain strip on the plate is marked "NEGRETTI & ZAMBRA'S PATENT. LONDON" and graduated every 5 degrees Fahrenheit from 0 to 125. A second graduation runs from -5 to +120. The side of the stem nearer the bulb is marked "Negretti & Zambra's Patent" and "62" and graduated (but not numbered) every degree Fahrenheit from -5 to +125. The other side is graduated (but not numbered) every degree from -5 to +120.
label: Description
content: Ref: Negretti & Zambra, <i>Encyclopaedic Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue</i> (London, after 1878), pp. 101-103.
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.314554
label: catalog number
content: 314554
label: accession number
content: 204612
objectType: label: Object Name
content: thermometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 1/16 in x 1 3/8 in x 7/16 in; 25.55875 cm x 3.4925 cm x 1.11125 cm