Maximum and Minimum Thermometers
date: label: date made
content: after 1890
name: label: maker
content: H. J. Green
notes: label: Description
content: Sset of two glass thermometers, each with a grooved aluminum plate marked "H. J. GREEN B'KLYN. N.Y." and "SIGNAL CORPS, U.S. ARMY." One is also marked "No. 41500" and "MAXIMUM" and the other is marked "No. 44505" and "MINIMUM." Each stem has a milk white back. The clear front of the maximum stem is graduated every degree F. from -34 to +128. The clear front of the minimum stem is graduated every degree Fahrenheit from -34 to +112.
label: Description
content: The thermometers are held in a Townsend support marked "Julien P. Friez & Sons." This support, which was introduced around 1905, enables the maximum thermometer to be released from its normal horizontal position and whirled rapidly around, and the minimum thermometer to be tilted so that the index can slide down to the end of the spirit column.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Brooklyn
topic: label: Subject
content: World War I
label: related event
content: World War I
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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. Signal Corps
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.308198
label: catalog number
content: 308198
label: accession number
content: 70852
label: accession number
content: 70852
objectType: label: Object Name
content: maximum and minimum thermometers
label: Object Name
content: Thermometers
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 1/2 in; 26.67 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 3/4 in x 12 1/2 in x 3 1/8 in; 6.985 cm x 31.75 cm x 7.9375 cm