Thermometer
date: label: date made
content: ca 1884
name: label: maker
content: Tonnelot, Jules
notes: label: Description
content: Mercury-in-glass thermometer with a cylindrical bulb. The tube is graduated from -10.2 to 108.0 degrees (Centigrade?), and marked, in red, “Tonnelot à Paris (1884.5) 4289.” It is probably one of the very precise thermometers with a tube of extra-hard glass that was made by Tonnelot for the International Committee of Weights and Measures, tested at the Bureau International at Sèvres, and distributed to government organizations around the world.
label: Description
content: Ref: J. A. Hall, “The International Temperature Scale Between 0 Degrees and 100 Degrees C,” <i>Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London</i> 229 (1930): 1-48.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
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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.317449
label: catalog number
content: 317449
label: accession number
content: 230396
objectType: label: Object Name
content: thermometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 25 1/2 in; 64.77 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 25 5/8 in x 1/4 in; 65.0875 cm x .635 cm