Thermometer

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Object Name: 
Thermometer
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, PA, Philadelphia (distributed)
United States, NY, Corning (glass)
Accession Number: 
2010.4.165 A
Dimensions: 
Overall L: 31.7 cm, Diam: 0.9 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
about 1900-1930
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bart Woloson
Primary Description: 
Colorless and translucent white glass, black enamel, mercury; blown, tooled, enameled, assembled. Cylindrical colorless glass tube with tooled ball knop at top end. Tube contains a translucent white insert with black enameled gradated markings running from negative 10 to 100 degrees Celsius and a thin tube filled with mercury. Back of insert inscribed "Corning Natural Glass Arthur H. Thomas Co.. Philada. U.S.A. Total Immersion No. 25031" in black enamel. Back of outer glass tube inscribed "BSN°37772".

More Info

Department: 
Science and Technology; Modern
Provenance: 
Woloson, Bart, Source
Color: 
colorless
Translucent white
black
Technique: 
blown
tooling
enameling
assembling
Material: 
glass
mercury
enamel
Inscription: 
BSN°37772
inscription
: 
Etched back of outer glass tube
Corning Natural Glass Arthur H. Thomas Co.. Philada. U.S.A. Total Immersion No. 25031
inscription
: 
Enameled back of insert

Objects in Set (4)

Thermometer
Artist:Corning Inc.
Date:about 1900-1930
Accession Number:2010.4.165 B
Thermometer
Artist:Corning Inc.
Date:about 1900-1930
Accession Number:2010.4.165 C
 
Original Thermometer Case
Artist:Arthur H. Thomas Co.
Date:about 1900-1930
Accession Number:2010.4.165 D
3 Thermometers with Original Case
Artist:Corning Inc.
Date:about 1900-1930
Accession Number:2010.4.165