Thermometer
date: label: date made
content: 1972
name: label: maker
content: LaBarge, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: The LaBarge firm introduced their electronic thermometer in the early 1970s, describing it as “the first basic change in temperature taking since Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the mercury thermometer in 1714.” The firm donated this example to the Smithsonian in 1972. An inscription on the cardboard box reads “LaBarge / ELECTRONIC / THERMOMETER / MODEL ET-10” and “LaBarge ELECTRONICS / A LaBarge COMPANY / 5200 S. YALE / TULSA, OKLAHOMA.”
label: Description
content: Ref: “Electronic Thermometer for Institutional Use,” HSMHA Health Reports 86 (July 1971): 600.
label: Description
content: Benton H. Brothers, et. al., “Portable Electronic Thermometer and Method of Temperature Measurement,” U.S. Patent 3,822,598 (July 9, 1974). The patent application was filed on March 23, 1971.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Oklahoma, Tulsa
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: LaBarge Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.301479.01
label: catalog number
content: 301479.01
label: accession number
content: 301479
label: model number
content: ET-10
objectType: label: Object Name
content: thermometer, clinical, electronic
label: Other Terms
content: thermometer, clinical, electronic; Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/2 in x 7 3/8 in x 5 5/8 in; 6.35 cm x 18.7325 cm x 14.2875 cm