2005.99.3.1-.3
Description
- Media Type / Médias
- Image
- Item Type / Type d'élément
- Images, Electronic
- Description / Description
- - thermometer
- (.1) - glass tube closed at both ends; bottom end tapers and ends in a ball filled with mercury, mercury is topped with a layer of lead pellets and thin red wax, thin yellow tinted glass tube is attached in the wax and runs almost the length of the tube; paper behind the inner tube is marked in increments of 10 from 0 to 220 and reads: "DAIRY THERMOMETER, FAHRENHEIT, NO.43"; brown glass top at top end
- (.2) - paper printed in black with instructions for rejoining the mercury column ( L-14.8, W-7.5)
- (.3A) - bottom of long, rectangular box, cardboard covered with brown paper, lined with brown tissue paper (L-28, W-2.1, H-2.1)
- (.3B) - lid for 3; sticker on top reads in part: "FLOATING THERMOMETER/PASTEURIZING/…" (L-28.2, W-2.3, H-2.1)
- from Libby McNeil plant on Richmond; used to check cooker temperatures for canning
Chatham Kent Museum
Out in the Open exhibition
VS 240 - Date of Publication
- 2018
- Collection
- Chatham Kent Museum
- Copyright Statement / Déclaration de droit d'auteur
- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Location of Original / Emplacement de l'original
- Chatham Kent Museum
Out in the Open exhibition
VS 240 - Terms of Use / Conditions d'utilisation
- Copies are provided for research and private study only. Permission to use images in any other way including, but not limited to, publication, exhibition, film, video or TV broadcast, or on any CD or website, must be obtained in writing from an authorized representative of the Chatham-Kent Museum prior to use. This applies to low-resolution copies downloaded from this site at no cost and to high resolution copies.
- Contact / Contacter
- Chatham-Kent MuseumEmail:ckcccmuseum@chatham-kent.ca
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Chatham, ON N7M 4L4
519-360-1998
