Thermometer
date: label: date made
content: 1913
name: label: maker
content: Taylor Instrument Co.
notes: label: Description
content: This is a glass thermometer filled with a red liquid that the manufacturer termed “Permacolor or Mercolor.” The tube has a milk-white back and a front configured so as to magnify the liquid column. The supporting metal plate is marked, at top, “Tycos / ROCHESTER, N.Y. U.S.A. / TORONTO, CANADA.” This is graduated from 26 to 102 degrees Fahrenheit, and provided with a metal bulb guard. This is mounted, in turn, on a wood board. The Taylor Instrument Companies donated it to the Smithsonian in 1923. It was apparently made in 1913, the year Taylor opened an office in Toronto.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Rochester
setName: label: See more items in
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.308157
label: catalog number
content: 308157
label: accession number
content: 70532
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Thermometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/4 in x 8 1/2 in; 5.715 cm x 21.59 cm
label: Measurements
content: tube: 6 1/2 in; 16.51 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/2 in x 2 3/16 in x 5/8 in; 21.59 cm x 5.55625 cm x 1.5875 cm