thermometer
Date: 1870-1920
Inventory Number: 1998-1-1262b
Classification: Thermometer
Subject:
Maker: American ?
User: Oak Ridge Station (1931 - 2005)
User: George R. Agassiz Station, Harvard (1951 - 1982)
User: Harvard College Observatory (founded 1839)
Cultural Region:
City of Use:
Dimensions:
30.7 x 0.4 cm (12 1/16 x 3/16 in.)
box: 2.6 x 31.6 x 3.3 cm (1 x 12 7/16 x 1 5/16 in.)
Description:
A thermometer consisting of a narrow glass tube with a mercury capillary etched with a scale and with a small glass ring on its top end.
Signedunsigned
FunctionProbably for meteorology, but its small glass ring suggests it could be lowered into a liquid.
Curatorial RemarksStored with 1998-1-1262a and c.
ProvenanceTransferred to CHSI. Presumably (in same box as an instrument from) the Agassiz Station, Harvard University Observatory in Harvard, MA.