Temperature Alarm
notes: label: Description
content: The patent tag reads “Fournier & Lemaire / Electro-Magnetic / Temperature Alarm / Patented May 4th / 1869.” The inscription on the instrument reads “THERMO . . .” J. B. N. Fournier was a professor at the Sorbonne in Paris, an authority on thermometric design, and a founder of the Société des Appareils Fournier.
label: Description
content: Ref: J. B. N. Fournier and C. A. Lemaire, “Improvement in Electro-Magnetic Temperature Alarms,” U.S. Patent 89,757 (May 4, 1869).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0854.27
label: accession number
content: 1981.0854
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0854.27
objectType: label: Object Name
content: regulator
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 1/16 in x 5 3/4 in x 1 1/2 in; 35.71875 cm x 14.605 cm x 3.81 cm