Object Details
- Salleron, Jules
- Description
- This is a mercury-in-glass thermometer with a brass collar at the lower end of the tube. The milk-white scale is marked “Centigrade” and “J. Salleron 24 Rue Pavee (au Marais) Paris” and carries a scale extending from -20 to +82 degrees Centigrade. The protective glass tube is marked “1 26”. Jules Salleron was a prominent precision instrument maker in Paris.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- U.S. Weather Bureau
- ca 1875-1897
- ID Number
- PH.314559
- catalog number
- 314559
- accession number
- 204612
- Object Name
- thermometer
- Measurements
- overall: 18 in; 45.72 cm
- overall: 18 1/2 in x 1 3/4 in; 46.99 cm x 4.445 cm
- place made
- France: Île-de-France, Paris
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
- Thermometers and Hygrometers
- Measuring & Mapping
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1420675
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ad-a183-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
