Object Details
- Taylor Instrument Co.
- Description
- Here, a mercury-in-glass thermometer with a milk white back is held in a black V-shaped housing that is marked “Tycos / ROCHESTER / N.Y. U.S.A.” and that caries a scale extending from -25 to +120 Fahrenheit. The outer brass case is marked “Tycos” at top, and “Taylor / Instrument / Co’s” at the bottom. The Taylor Instrument Companies began operating as such in 1903, adopted the Tycos trade mark around 1908, and donated this instrument to the Smithsonian in 1923.
- Ref.: Taylor Instrument Companies, Illustrated and Descriptive Catalog and Price List [of] Thermometers Hydrometers Barometers (Rochester, 1911) p. 111.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Taylor Instrument Companies
- 1908-1923
- ID Number
- PH.308163
- catalog number
- 308163
- accession number
- 70532
- Object Name
- Thermometer
- Measurements
- overall: 11 in; 27.94 cm
- overall: 11 in x 2 1/2 in x 6 13/16 in; 27.94 cm x 6.35 cm x 17.30375 cm
- place made
- United States: New York, Rochester
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
- Measuring & Mapping
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1420665
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b3-8238-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
