Thermometer
notes: label: Description
content: Mercury-in-glass thermometer with white back, and scale that reads from 94 to 106 degrees F. There is a black plastic case. Inscriptions on the cardboard box read in part “THERMOMETER, HUMAN, CLINICAL, HUMAN, ORAL OR RECTAL” and “CONTRACT NO. DSA 2-1591 / KAYE THERMOMETER CORP. / 7/62.” The Kaye Thermometer Co. was located in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1952.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Brooklyn
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2012.0165.188
label: catalog number
content: 2012.0165.188
label: accession number
content: 2012.0165
objectType: label: Object Name
content: thermometer, clinical
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 4 5/8 in x 5/8 in; 1.27 cm x 11.7475 cm x 1.5875 cm