Thermometer
name: label: maker
content: Tagliabue, Giuseppe
notes: label: Description
content: Mercury in glass Fahrenheit thermometer with a brass scale and a brass protective case. The scale ranges from 0 to 220 degrees, graduated every two degrees, and marked "FREEZING", "BLOOD HEAT", and "WATER BOILS." It is also marked "G. TAGLIBUE 302 PEARL ST. N.Y."
label: Description
content: Giuseppe Tagliabue (1812-1878) was born in Como, Italy, apprenticed with a brother in England, immigrated to the United States, established a business in New York in 1834, and won numerous awards for his instruments--most particularly such glass instruments as thermometers, barometers, and hydrometers.
label: Description
content: Ref.: "Death of an Old Inventor," New York Times (May 8, 1878), p. 2.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Measuring & Mapping
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: John William Christopher Draper and James Christopher Draper
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.333985
label: accession number
content: 304826
label: catalog number
content: 333985
objectType: label: Object Name
content: thermometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 19/32 in; 24.384 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 3/4 in x 1 3/4 in x 1 1/4 in; 24.765 cm x 4.445 cm x 3.175 cm