Hicks Medical Thermometer
date: label: date made
content: before 1923
name: label: maker
content: Hicks, J. J.
notes: label: Description
content: Unusual mercury-in-glass thermometer with a cylindrical bulb and a flat tube. Inscriptions read “J. HICKS LONDON” and “PATENT EXPRESS.” This thermometer is only 4 inches long. The scale extends from 95 to 110 degrees Fahrenheit, divided in fifths. The glass tube holding the mercury expands slightly just above the bulb. The back of the scale is red. The Taylor Instrument Companies gave this to the Smithsonian in 1923.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
topic: label: Subject
content: Medicine
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Thermometers and Hygrometers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Taylor Instrument Co.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-07713
label: catalog number
content: M-07713
label: accession number
content: 70532
label: model number
content: 1358253
objectType: label: Object Name
content: thermometer, clinical
label: Other Terms
content: Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/8 in x 4 in x 1/4 in; .3175 cm x 10.16 cm x .635 cm