Object Details
- Description
- Clinitemp fever detector devised by Philip Lionel van Kersen (1926-2023) and produced by Clinitemp in Indianapolis.
- Ref: “Hoosier Invents New Clinical Thermometer,” The Indianapolis Star (Sept. 7, 1976), p. 21.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Clinitemp
- Credit Line
- The Fournet Drugstore Collection
- Measurements
- overall: 1.5 cm x 12.5 cm x 12.5 cm; 9/16 in x 4 15/16 in x 4 15/16 in
- overall: 5 in x 5 in x 1/2 in; 12.7 cm x 12.7 cm x 1.27 cm
- Object Name
- thermometer, clinical
- thermometer, clinical
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