Pyrometer
date: label: date made
content: 1869
name: label: maker
content: Brown, Edward
notes: label: Description
content: Edward Brown (1834-1905) was an Englishman who landed in New York in 1858, moved to Philadelphia, opened a small shop, and produced the first pyrometer of American design. He won a Centennial Medal in 1876, and a John Scott Medal in 1897. The firm became Edward Brown & Son in 1905, the Brown Instrument Co. in 1910, and a division of Honeywell in 1934.
label: Description
content: The dial of this instrument is marked "STANDARD PYROMETER” and “EDW. BROWN, PHILA. PAT. / JUNE 1st. 1869."
label: Description
content: Ref: Edward Brown, “Pyrometer,” U.S. Patent 90,815 (June 1, 1869).
label: Description
content: Edna Margaret Brown, <i>Edward Brown, Inventor</i> (Philadelphia, 1957).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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.327894
label: catalog number
content: 327624
label: accession number
content: 271855
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pyrometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 19 3/4 in x 6 3/8 in x 6 in; 50.165 cm x 16.1925 cm x 15.24 cm
label: Measurements
content: box: 6 7/8 in x 21 in x 7 1/2 in; 17.4625 cm x 53.34 cm x 19.05 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in box: 6 3/4 in x 21 in x 7 9/16 in; 17.145 cm x 53.34 cm x 19.20875 cm