Thermometer
name: label: maker
content: American Thermometer Co., Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: The inscription on the cardboard package reads in part “Fever Scan T.M. / EASY TO READ THERMOMETER” and “AMERICAN THERMOMETER CO., INC.” The firm introduced the term “FEVER SCAN” to commerce in 1979 and filed for a trademark in 1980. Winfried Schuberth (1936-2003), designer of this thermometer, was vice-president of the American Thermometer Co.
label: Description
content: Ref: Winfried Schuberth, “Thermochromic Thermometer,” U.S. Design Patent 250,997 (Feb. 6, 1979), assigned to American Thermometer Co., of Dayton, Ohio.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: associated place
content: United States: Louisiana, Saint Martinville
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: The Fournet Drugstore Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0475.833
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0475.833
label: accession number
content: 1985.0475
label: accession number
content: 1985.0475
objectType: label: Object Name
content: thermometer, clinical
label: Object Name
content: thermometer, clinical
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 cm x 13.2 cm; 5 1/2 in x 5 3/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 5/8 in x 5 1/4 in x 1/8 in; 14.2875 cm x 13.335 cm x .3175 cm