Thermometer-Hygrometer
name: label: maker
content: Airguide Instrument Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Richard Fee and Albert L. Stemwedel began in business in Chicago in 1930, manufacturing battery maintainers for the home radio market. Within a few years, they were making hygrometers, thermometers and field glasses as well, and using “Airguide” as the brand name for many of their products. The firm became the Airguide Instrument Co. in the 1950s.
label: Description
content: The inscription on the face of this combination instrument reads: "TEMPERATURE Airguide RELATIVE HUMIDITY MADE IN U.S.A. BY AIRGUIDE INSTRUMENT COMPANY, CHICAGO."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
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.337176
label: catalog number
content: 337176
label: accession number
content: 1979.0026
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Thermometer-Hygrometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 3 9/16 in x 3 9/16 in; 2.54 cm x 9.04875 cm x 9.04875 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in box: 1 1/2 in x 3 7/8 in x 3 13/16 in; 3.81 cm x 9.8425 cm x 9.68375 cm