Bimetal Thermostat
name: label: user
content: Woodrow Wilson High School
label: maker
content: Chicago Apparatus Company
notes: label: Description
content: The bimetal thermostat shows that dissimilar metals expand (or contract) at different rates, and thus may be used to close or open an electrical circuit at specific temperatures. Circuit is completed when temperature either rises above a certain point or falls below another point. Temperatures are set by two screws. The inscription reads "Chicago Apparatus Co. / Chicago USA."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
label: used
content: United States: Ohio, Youngstown
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Richard J. Zitto
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2010.0235.02
label: catalog number
content: 2010.0235.02
label: accession number
content: 2010.0235
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bimetal thermostat
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/2 in x 2 in x 6 in; 6.35 cm x 5.08 cm x 15.24 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 6 in x 2 3/4 in; 7.62 cm x 15.24 cm x 6.985 cm