Thermometer
date: label: date made
content: early 1920s
name: label: maker
content: Nurnberg Thermometer Company Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: Mercury-in-glass thermometer with white back, scale that reads from 94 to 110 degrees F., inscriptions that read “2927” and “Nurnberg’s” and “THE NURSE” and “1 MIN” and protective metal case. Charles Nurnberg (d. 1945), a German immigrant, established The Charles Nurnberg Thermometer Co. in New York in 1895, and soon claimed to be the largest manufacturer of clinical thermometers in the world. He also obtained patents. Sam Friedland bought the firm in the late 1930s and expanded the product range.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.2357.08
label: accession number
content: 1978.2357
label: catalog number
content: 1978.2357.08
objectType: label: Object Name
content: thermometer, clinical
label: Other Terms
content: Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 5/8 in x 3/8 in; x 24.4475 cm x .9525 cm
label: Measurements
content: chain, extended, w/out o ring: 4 15/16 in x 5/16 in; 12.54125 cm x .79375 cm
label: Measurements
content: case, incl o ring, no chain: 4 1/2 in x 3/8 in; 11.43 cm x .9525 cm
label: Measurements
content: case, w/out therm and cap, chain extended: 9 7/16 in x 3/8 in; 23.97125 cm x .9525 cm
label: Measurements
content: thermometer: 4 1/8 in x 3/8 in; 10.4775 cm x .9525 cm