thermoscope (replica)
name: label: maker
content: Eichner, Laurits Christian
notes: label: Description
content: A thermoscope shows that heat causes a liquid to expand, while a thermometer measures that effect. This is a replica of a thermoscope that is attributed to Galileo Galilei, and that was probably made between 1592 and 1600.
label: Description
content: Ref: W. E. K. Middleton, <i>Catalog of Meteorological Instruments in the Museum of History and Technology</i> (Washington, D.C., 1969), pp. 36-37.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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.322752
label: catalog number
content: 322752
label: accession number
content: 248673
objectType: label: Object Name
content: thermoscope (replica)
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 32 in x 3 1/2 in x 2 1/2 in; 81.28 cm x 8.89 cm x 6.35 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in case: 5 in x 33 1/2 in x 6 3/8 in; 12.7 cm x 85.09 cm x 16.1925 cm