Recording Pyrometer
date: label: date made
content: 1905-1910
label: date made
content: 1905-1934
name: label: maker
content: Edward Brown & Son
notes: label: Description
content: Edward Brown (1834-1905) was an Englishman who landed in New York in 1858, moved to Philadelphia, opened a small shop, and produced the first pyrometer of American design. He won a Centennial Medal in 1876, and a John Scott Medal in 1897. The firm became Edward Brown & Son in 1905, The Brown Instrument Company in 1910, and a division of Honeywell in 1934.
label: Description
content: The a 24-hour paper chart on this instrument is marked "BROWN ELECTRIC RECORDING PYROMETER." The sensor is marked “1200” and “11640” and “KLG.” The cover of the case (now missing) had a brass plate marked "BROWN ELECTRIC RECORDING PYROMETER / EDWARD BROWN & Son / PHILADELPHIA, PA. No. 11,640 PATENTS PENDING."
label: Description
content: Ref: The Brown Instrument Company, <i>Brown Pyrometers . . . Catalogue No. 9</i> (Philadelphia, ca. 1913), p. 23.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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.315029
label: catalog number
content: 315029
label: accession number
content: 214264
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pyrometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 in x 11 in x 17 1/2 in; 12.7 cm x 27.94 cm x 44.45 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 in x 10 7/8 in x 17 3/4 in; 12.7 cm x 27.6225 cm x 45.085 cm