Maximum Thermometer
date: label: date made
content: 1910-1960
name: label: maker
content: Taylor Instrument Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Mercury-in-glass thermometer so designed that an air bubble separates a small bit of mercury from the main part of the column. When the instrument is mounted horizontally, the detached mercury remains in place when the rest of the column falls, thereby indicating the maximum temperature. John Phillips, an English geologist, introduced the form at the 1832 meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.
label: Description
content: The bulb is spherical. The tube has a milk white back; the scale on the front extends from -30 to +110, graduated by degrees, The supporting metal plate is marked "Taylor, Rochester, N.Y." and "U.S.W.B." and "No.43191" and "MAXIMUM."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Rochester
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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.317473
label: catalog number
content: 317473
label: accession number
content: 230396
objectType: label: Object Name
content: thermometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 in; 30.48 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 in x 15/16 in x 3/8 in; 30.48 cm x 2.38125 cm x .9525 cm