Recording Thermometer
name: label: maker
content: Richard Freres
notes: label: Description
content: This is the transmitting apparatus, incomplete, of a telethermograph. The inscription on the case reads “Télé-thermographe Breveté S.G.D.G. Jules Richard Constructeur Paris.” That on the instrument reads “Richard Frères constructeurs breveté Paris.” Felix Richard began in business in Paris in 1845, making metallic (aneroid) barometers. The firm became Societé Richard Freres in 1882; and later "Jules Richard, Sucessor, Paris.”
label: Description
content: Ref: W. E. K. Middleton, <i>Catalog of Meteorological Instruments in the National Museum of History and Technology</i> (Washington, D.C., 1969), pp. 56-57.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.316271
label: catalog number
content: 316271
label: accession number
content: 224564
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Recording Thermometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 5/8 in x 14 1/4 in x 10 3/8 in; 26.9875 cm x 36.195 cm x 26.3525 cm