Meat Thermometer
name: label: maker
content: Ohio Thermometer Company
notes: label: Description
content: Mercury-in-glass meat thermometer with metal scale near the top. An inscription on the cardboard box reads in part “ALL GLASS THERMOMETER / Manufactured by / OHIO THERMOMETER CO., SPRINGFIELD, O.”
label: Description
content: Lee F. Chaney, a pharmacist in Springfield, O., began making mercury thermometers and barometers in 1904. He established the Ohio Thermometer Co. in 1922 and incorporated it in 1934.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio, Springfield
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Miles Davis
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2010.0214.07
label: catalog number
content: 2010.0214.07
label: accession number
content: 2010.0214
objectType: label: Object Name
content: thermometer
label: Object Name
content: thermometer, glass
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cardboard (packaging material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/8 in x 1 5/8 in x 3/8 in; 15.5575 cm x 4.1275 cm x .9525 cm
label: Measurements
content: case: 2 in x 7 5/8 in x 1 3/8 in; 5.08 cm x 19.3675 cm x 3.4925 cm
label: Measurements
content: thermometer: 1/4 in x 6 in x 5/8 in; .635 cm x 15.24 cm x 1.5875 cm
label: Measurements
content: tool: 1/8 in x 5 1/4 in x 5/8 in; .3175 cm x 13.335 cm x 1.5875 cm