Temperature and Pressure Gauge
date: label: date made
content: ca 1900
name: label: maker
content: Hohmann & Maurer
notes: label: Description
content: This short-stem instrument designed for industrial use came to the Smithsonian in 1923. The brass plate at the top of the V-shaped iron case is marked “TAYLOR BRO’S / ROCHESTER / NY.” The brass housing around the mercury-in-glass thermometer is marked on one side “FAH’T / TEMPERATURE SCALE” with scale extending from 125 to 270 degrees. The other side is marked “PRESSURE / SCALE lbs. per sq. inch” and reads from zero to 20. It is also marked “HOHMANN & MAURER MFG. CO. ROCHESTER, N.Y. H&M TRADE MARK.”
label: Description
content: Hohmann & Maurer began business in Manhattan around 1885, and moved to Brooklyn soon thereafter. The firm became a division of Taylor Bros. and moved to Rochester in 1896.
label: Description
content: Ref: Hohmann & Maurer Mfg. Co., <i>Thermometers and Gauges Illustrated Catalogue</i> (Brooklyn, n.d.), part. II, p. 6.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Rochester
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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: Taylor Instrument Companies
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.308160
label: catalog number
content: 308160
label: accession number
content: 70532
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Temperature and Pressure Gauge
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 3/4 in; 34.925 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 11/16 in x 1 3/4 in x 1 7/8 in; 34.76625 cm x 4.445 cm x 4.7625 cm