Kata Thermometer
date: label: date made
content: 1913-1920
name: label: maker
content: J. J. Hicks
notes: label: Description
content: In 1913 Leonard Hill, a British physiologist interested in the relationship between atmosphere and health, described a Kata thermometer (Hill’s term) that represented the humidity in terms of the time it took for the enclosed liquid to fall a certain amount. This example is an alcohol-in-glass thermometer with a large cylindrical bulb and enlargements at the lower and upper ends of the stem. The alcohol is violet-colored (mostly faded to orange). The milk-white back of the stem is marked “J. Hicks 8 9 & 10 Hatton Garden London No 261 F531.” The front is marked “Fahrt” and has a scale reading from 100 to 95 degrees Fahrenheit, in tenths.
label: Description
content: Ref.: Leonard Hill, et. al., “The Influence of the Atmosphere on our Health and Comfort in Confined and Crowded Places,” <i>Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections</i> 60 (1913), #23.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
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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. Weather Bureau
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.317457
label: catalog number
content: 317457
label: accession number
content: 230396
objectType: label: Object Name
content: thermometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/2 in; 21.59 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/2 in x 5/8 in; 21.59 cm x 1.5875 cm