Pyrometer Controller
date: label: date made
content: 1958
name: label: maker
content: Honeywell Inc. Brown Instruments Division
notes: label: Description
content: This pyrometer controller was made ca. 1958 and given to the Smithsonian the following year. A red and black tag on the front reads “MINNEAPOLIS Honeywell BROWN PYR-O-VANE." The scale reads from 0 to 1000, with divisions every 10, and inscription reading "INT. RES. 821 OHMS. SERIAL No. 860,137 COUPLE TYPE J (i.e.) DEGREES FAHRENHEIT CALIBRATED FOR 4-5 OHMS, EXT. RES." With the instrument is a wooden model of a furnace, green finish.
label: Description
content: The Brown Instrument Co. was established in Philadelphia in 1860, incorporated in 1910, and became a division of Honeywell in 1934.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Minnesota, Minneapolis
label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.316714
label: catalog number
content: 316714
label: accession number
content: 227076
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pyrometer-controller
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: pyrometer: 10 in x 9 in x 9 in; 25.4 cm x 22.86 cm x 22.86 cm
label: Measurements
content: furnace model: 5 1/2 in x 4 1/4 in x 10 in; 13.97 cm x 10.795 cm x 25.4 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall; pyrometer controller: 10 5/8 in x 9 in x 8 13/16 in; 26.9875 cm x 22.86 cm x 22.38375 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall; model: 5 7/16 in x 4 9/16 in x 10 in; 13.81125 cm x 11.58875 cm x 25.4 cm