Hicks Medical Thermometer
Hicks Medical Thermometer
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- Description
- This unusual mercury-in-glass thermometer has a cylindrical bulb and a flat tube. It is marked “J. HICKS LONDON” and “PATENT EXPRESS.” It is only 4 inches long. The scale extends from 95 to 110 degrees Fahrenheit, divided in fifths. The glass tube holding the mercury expands slightly just above the bulb. The back of the scale is red. The Taylor Instrument Companies gave it to the Smithsonian in 1923.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- thermometer, clinical
- Other Terms
- Diagnostic Medicine
- date made
- before 1923
- maker
- Hicks, J. J.
- place made
- United Kingdom: England, London
- Measurements
- overall: 1/8 in x 4 in x 1/4 in;.3175 cm x 10.16 cm x.635 cm
- ID Number
- MG.M-07713
- catalog number
- M-07713
- accession number
- 70532
- model number
- 1358253
- Credit Line
- Taylor Instrument Co.
- subject
- Medicine
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Thermometers and Hygrometers
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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