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Shelfmark: 19942-0000 Musée des arts et métiers-CNAM  (Paris France) Suggestions & Corrections  
Type: instrument
Dimension: H.: 55; Diam.: 11
 
Component's data
Thematic group: Instruments 
Type: thermometer
Abstract: Vertical glass tube, some kind of thermometric apparatus, with wide open end at top, closed with cork, mounted against a strip of wood. The lower end is attached by pitch to cylindrical cardboard support. A string at the top of the tube suggests that it is for hanging. Some faintly pencilled grafuations can be seen on the wooden strip on which the tube is mounted: 32, then 50, then 56 and 58 with a figure 7 between these two numbers, then 60, 62, 64 and 66, but no others, except a pencilled line near the top of the strip.
 
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Person City Cronology   Position
name: -
name: Paris
date/range: 1952
date of: donation
epoch: 20 (2°)
name: Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
resp.: owner
name: Paris
date/range: 1760
date of: construction
epoch: 18 (2°)
 
Subject/s
Discipline Topic Argument

Meteorology Thermometer -

 
Digital version:  1  Image/s
mckie_143_150_157

 

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