Standard Bimetallic Thermometer
date: label: date made
content: late 19th century
name: label: maker
content: Standard Thermometer Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Circular thermometer with scale ranging from -45 to +155 degrees. Inscriptions read "FAHRENHEIT" and "MANUFACTURED FOR / FAIRBANKS & CO. / BY THE / STANDARD THERMOMETER CO. / PEABODY, MASS." and "PATENTED NOVEMBER 10, 1885 / DECEMBER 28, 1886."
label: Description
content: The Standard Thermometer Co. was established in Peabody in the mid-1880s and soon employed 21 workmen. It later became the Standard Thermometer & Electric Company. Roger Upton, a Harvard graduate, was president of the firm. Edgar W. Upton, who was also involved with the firm, was an inventor. Among his patents was one (D16989) for the "Design for a Case for Mechanical Thermometers" (1886).
label: Description
content: The first date on this thermometer refers to the thermometer patent (#330,161) that was issued to Thomas W. Shepherd of Peabody, Mass., and assigned to Edgar W. Upton. The second date refers to the "Metallic Thermometer" patent (#355,291) issued to George B. St. John of Boston.
label: Description
content: Ref: "D. Hamilton Hurd, <i>History of Essex County, Massacusetts,"</i> (Philadelphia, 1888), vol. 2, p. 1027.
label: Description
content: <i>Beverly, Danvers and Peabody: Their Representative Business Men and Points of Interest</i> (New York, 1893), p. 4.
label: Description
content: "Factory of the Standard Thermometer & Electric Company," <i>Electrical World</i> 33 (1899): 33.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Peabody
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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.333984
label: catalog number
content: 333984
label: accession number
content: 304826
objectType: label: Object Name
content: thermometer
label: Object Name
content: Standard bimetallic thermometer
label: Object Name
content: bimetallic thermometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 5/16 in; 23.622 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/8 in x 9 1/8 in; 3.4925 cm x 23.1775 cm