Thermometer Case
date: label: date made
content: before 1923
notes: label: Description
content: This case for two medical thermometers is marked “TYCOS PATENTED.” The Taylor Instrument Companies began using the word Tycos in 1908, and gave this case to the Smithsonian in 1923.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Medicine
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Thermometers and Hygrometers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Taylor Instrument Companies
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-07716
label: accession number
content: 70532
label: catalog number
content: M-07716
objectType: label: Object Name
content: thermometer case
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5/8 in x 4 3/4 in x 3/4 in; 1.5875 cm x 12.065 cm x 1.905 cm