Object Details
- Description
- Mercury-in-glass meat thermometer with metal scale near the top. An inscription on the cardboard box reads in part “ALL GLASS THERMOMETER / Manufactured by / OHIO THERMOMETER CO., SPRINGFIELD, O.”
- Lee F. Chaney, a pharmacist in Springfield, O., began making mercury thermometers and barometers in 1904. He established the Ohio Thermometer Co. in 1922 and incorporated it in 1934.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Ohio Thermometer Company
- Credit Line
- Miles Davis
- Physical Description
- glass (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- cardboard (packaging material)
- Measurements
- overall: 6 1/8 in x 1 5/8 in x 3/8 in; 15.5575 cm x 4.1275 cm x .9525 cm
- case: 2 in x 7 5/8 in x 1 3/8 in; 5.08 cm x 19.3675 cm x 3.4925 cm
- thermometer: 1/4 in x 6 in x 5/8 in; .635 cm x 15.24 cm x 1.5875 cm
- tool: 1/8 in x 5 1/4 in x 5/8 in; .3175 cm x 13.335 cm x 1.5875 cm
- Object Name
- thermometer
- thermometer, glass
