Electric Thermometer
date: label: date made
content: ca 1925
notes: label: Description
content: Alnor Distant Reading Electric Thermometer Type 2900, created by General Meters and Controls Co. in Chicago. Joseph B. Rogoff, the donor, was Director of Rehabilitation Medicine at Beth Israel Medical Center, in New York City. He reported that this instrument was used to determine the temperature of the skin in relation to such things as ingestion of alcohol and smoking of cigarettes. It is serial number 15077A and was made ca. 1925.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Joseph B. Rogoff, M.D.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.306968.02
label: catalog number
content: 306968.02
label: accession number
content: 306968
label: serial number
content: 15077A
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electrotherapy coll object
label: Object Name
content: thermometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in x 3 3/4 in x 7 3/4 in; 25.4 cm x 9.525 cm x 19.685 cm