Minimum Thermometer
date: label: date made
content: 1879-1885
name: label: maker
content: J. & H. J. Green
notes: label: Description
content: Alcohol-in-glass Rutherford-type thermometer mounted on a brass plate marked "J. & H. J. GREEN NEW YORK" and "YALE MIN. STD. MAY 1881. CORNING GLASS, SQUIBBS ETHER" and "SIGNAL SERVICE U.S. ARMY No. 3." The plate is graduated every 5 degrees F. from 0 to +250. The back of the stem is milk white. The clear front is graduated (but not numbered) every degree from 0 to +250.
label: Description
content: John Rutherford, a Scottish country doctor, devised this form in 1790. Green stated in 1900 that it was "the only one in general use." It has a black index inside the tube. "On a decrease of temperature the alcohol recedes, taking with it the glass index; on an increase of temperature the alcohol alone ascends the tube, leaving the end of the index farthest from the bulb indicating the minimum temperature."
label: Description
content: Ref.: Henry J. Green, <i>Meteorological and Scientific Instruments</i> (Brooklyn, 1900), p. 23.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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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: U.S. Weather Bureau
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.328772
label: accession number
content: 277511
label: catalog number
content: 328772
objectType: label: Object Name
content: thermometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 1/2 in; 34.29 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in case: 1 1/4 in x 13 1/2 in x 1 9/16 in; 3.175 cm x 34.29 cm x 3.96875 cm