Thermoscope (Replica)
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.322753
label: catalog number
content: 322753
label: accession number
content: 248673
objectType: label: Object Name
content: thermometer (replica)
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in x 40 1/4 in x 3 5/8 in; 8.89 cm x 102.235 cm x 9.2075 cm