Thermometer
notes: label: Description
content: George F. Taylor, then of Washington, D.C., patented a small resistance thermometer in 1924. He gave this example (a vial containing disassembled elements) to the Smithsonian in the late 1950s.
label: Description
content: Ref: George F. Taylor, “Resistance Thermometer,” U.S. Patent 1,490,990 (April 22, 1924).
label: Description
content: George F. Taylor, article in Physical Review 26 (1924).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.315808.07
label: catalog number
content: 315808.07
label: accession number
content: 220985
objectType: label: Object Name
content: thermometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 in; 10.16 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in vial: 1 7/8 in x 1 1/16 in; 4.7625 cm x 2.69875 cm