Object Details
- Description
- The inscription on the cardboard package reads in part “Fever Scan T.M. / EASY TO READ THERMOMETER” and “AMERICAN THERMOMETER CO., INC.” The firm introduced the term “FEVER SCAN” to commerce in 1979 and filed for a trademark in 1980. Winfried Schuberth (1936-2003), designer of this thermometer, was vice-president of the American Thermometer Co.
- Ref: Winfried Schuberth, “Thermochromic Thermometer,” U.S. Design Patent 250,997 (Feb. 6, 1979), assigned to American Thermometer Co., of Dayton, Ohio.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- American Thermometer Co., Inc.
- Credit Line
- The Fournet Drugstore Collection
- Measurements
- overall: 14 cm x 13.2 cm; 5 1/2 in x 5 3/16 in
- overall: 5 5/8 in x 5 1/4 in x 1/8 in; 14.2875 cm x 13.335 cm x .3175 cm
- Object Name
- thermometer, clinical
- thermometer, clinical
