Hicks Minimum Thermometer
- Description
- This alcohol-in-glass Rutherford-type thermometer is mounted on a white porcelain plate that is marked "575" and with the M/O monogram of the British Meteorological Office and "J. HICKS, 8, 9 & 10. HATTON GARDEN LONDON" and an monogram. The plate is also graduated every 5 degrees Fahrenheit from -20 to +110. The thermometer stem is marked "575" and with the M/O monogram; and graduated every degree Fahrenheit from -25 to +110. The whole is mounted on a wooden base that has metal guards protecting the bulb, and that once had two metal loops so that it could be hung horizontally.
- James J. Hicks (1837-1916) apprenticed with Casella and rose to the position of foreman before beginning in business on his own. He rented a shop at 8 Hatton Garden in 1864 and expanded to 8, 9 & 10 Hatton Garden in the 1880s.
- Ref: Anita McConnell, King of the Clinicals. The Life and Times of J. J. Hicks (1837-1916) (York, 1998).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- maker
- J. J. Hicks
- place made
- United Kingdom: England, London
- Measurements
- tube: 12 in; 30.48 cm
- overall: 13 3/4 in; 34.925 cm
- overall: 3 1/4 in x 13 5/8 in x 1 1/4 in; 8.255 cm x 34.6075 cm x 3.175 cm
- ID Number
- PH.317471
- accession number
- 230396
- catalog number
- 317471
- Credit Line
- U.S. Weather Bureau
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- Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
- Measuring & Mapping
- Thermometers and Hygrometers
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
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