Object Details
- Description
- Alnor Distant Reading Electric Thermometer Type 2900, created by General Meters and Controls Co. in Chicago. Joseph B. Rogoff, the donor, was Director of Rehabilitation Medicine at Beth Israel Medical Center, in New York City. He reported that this instrument was used to determine the temperature of the skin in relation to such things as ingestion of alcohol and smoking of cigarettes. It is serial number 15077A and was made ca. 1925.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- ca 1925
- Credit Line
- Joseph B. Rogoff, M.D.
- Measurements
- overall: 10 in x 3 3/4 in x 7 3/4 in; 25.4 cm x 9.525 cm x 19.685 cm
- Object Name
- electrotherapy coll object
- thermometer
