Minimum Thermometer
Minimum Thermometer
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- Description
- This unfinished alcohol-in-glass Rutherford-type thermometer has a spherical bulb. The back of the tube is milk white; there is no scale on the front. It came to the Smithsonian from the U.S. Weather Bureau.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- thermometer
- Physical Description
- glass (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 10 1/2 in; 26.67 cm
- overall: 10 9/16 in x 1/2 in; 26.82875 cm x 1.27 cm
- ID Number
- PH.317461
- catalog number
- 317461
- accession number
- 230396
- Credit Line
- U.S. Weather Bureau
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
- Measuring & Mapping
- Thermometers and Hygrometers
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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