Hicks Solar Radiation Thermometer
date: label: date made
content: 1870s
name: label: maker
content: Hicks, J. J.
notes: label: Description
content: Mercury-in-glass thermometer with a blackened bulb. The scale extends from -20 to +200 degrees Fahrenheit, and is graduated by degrees and marked every 10 degrees. The "No. 30 Patent 3647" inscription on the stem refers to the British patent for “Testing vacuum of solar thermometer” issued to J. J. Hicks, a meteorological instrument maker in London, in 1873. The surrounding glass container is marked "J. CALL New York."
label: Description
content: This instrument may have been used by John William Draper, an American polymath who received the Rumford Prize in in 1875 for his long-standing work on solar radiation. It may also have been used by his son, Daniel Draper, a noted meteorologist.
label: Description
content: Ref: James J. Hicks, <i>Illustrated & Descriptive Catalogue of Standard, Self-Recording, and Other Meteorological Instruments</i> (London, about 1874), pp. 60-61.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
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: John William Christopher Draper and James Christopher Draper
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.333988
label: catalog number
content: 333988
label: accession number
content: 304826
objectType: label: Object Name
content: solar radiation thermometer
label: Object Name
content: thermometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 16 in; 40.64 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in box: 3 in x 16 5/8 in x 3 in; 7.62 cm x 42.2275 cm x 7.62 cm