General Information

Serial #

N/A

Part Number

1

Total Parts

3

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

Scale printed in black ink on off-white paper; housed within clear glass casing; glass tube within casing contains silver mercury.

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length

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Width

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Height

19.5 cm

Thickness

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Weight

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Diameter

1.5 cm

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Agriculture

Category

Dairying

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

Unknown

Country

Germany

State/Province

Unknown

City

Unknown

Context

Country

Unknown

State/Province

Unknown

Period

Unknown

Canada

Part of a large collection of medical artifacts, archival material & trade literature transferred to CSTM in 2002 from the former History of Medicine Museum, Toronto, ON. This item formerly belonged to Dr. Herriman, one of the first three medical graduates from Queen's University, Kingston, Ont. [Ref.2]

Function

Unknown

Technical

Unknown

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

Scale 20 to 150, graduated in increments of 2 and labelled at intervals of 10 printed in black ink. Scale labelled "FLOATING DAIRY THERMOMETER". Also marked on scale are "Freezing" [32 degree mark], "Churning" [62 degree mark], "Cheese" [85 degree mark] and "Scalding" [150 degree mark]. Red line highlights 63-degree point. " * MADE IN GERMANY" stamped in blue ink on paper scale. UHN catalogue no. "976.6.20 a" printed by hand in black ink on glass casing, near bulb end.

Missing

Appears complete.

Finish

Scale printed in black ink on off-white paper; housed within clear glass casing; glass tube within casing contains silver mercury.

Decoration

N/A