Thermometer
date: label: date made
content: 1872-1890
name: label: maker
content: Taylor Brothers
notes: label: Description
content: Alcohol-in-glass thermometer with a milk-white tube and metal bulb guard. The supporting metal plate reads, in the arch at top, “TAYLOR BRO’S / Rochester / N.Y.” and is graduated from -20 to 116 degrees Fahrenheit, with indications for “Freez/ing,” “Tempe/rate,” “Sumr/Heat” and “Blood/Heat.” And it sports an image of a hand holding a flag marked “ACCURATUS TB,” a trade mark that the firm adopted after 1879.
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: Taylor Instrument Companies
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.308156
label: catalog number
content: 308156
label: accession number
content: 70532
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Thermometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 in x 8 3/4 in; 5.08 cm x 22.225 cm
label: Measurements
content: thermometer: 6 3/4 in; 17.145 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 3/4 in x 2 1/8 in x 15/16 in; 22.225 cm x 5.3975 cm x 2.38125 cm