Pyrometer
name: label: maker
content: James Newman
notes: label: Description
content: John Frederic Daniell (1790-1845) was an English scientist who, in 1831, became the first professor of chemistry in King’s College, London. He was also known for having devised a pyrometer that measured heat by means of the expansion of a metal bar. This Daniell pyrometer came from the U.S. Military Academy. The “J. Newman, 122 Regent Street, London” inscription refers to James Newman, an instrument maker active in the 1830s.
label: Description
content: Ref: J. Frederick Daniell, “On a New Register-Pyrometer, for Measuring the Expansion of Solids, and Determining the Higher Degrees of Temperature upon the Common Thermometric Scale,” <i>Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London</i> 120 (1830): 257.
label: Description
content: J. Frederick Daniell, “Further Experiments with a New Register-Pyrometer for Measuring the Expansion of Solids,” <i>Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London</i> 121 (1831): 443-458.
label: Description
content: James Newman, <i>A Catalogue of Philosophical Instruments</i> (London, 1836 and 1837).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
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.315740
label: catalog number
content: 315740
label: accession number
content: 217544
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pyrometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/2 in x 2 in x 5 3/4 in; 16.51 cm x 5.08 cm x 14.605 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in case: 1 3/8 in x 6 9/16 in x 5 1/8 in; 3.4925 cm x 16.66875 cm x 13.0175 cm