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Shelfmark: 19929-0000 Musée des arts et métiers-CNAM  (Paris France) Suggestions & Corrections  
Type: instrument
Dimension: H.: 1,5; W.: 2; L.: 94; Mass: 130 g.
 
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Thematic group: Instruments 
Type: thermometer
Abstract: Thermometer tube, capillary, bulb broken off, bent at top twice at right angles to communicate with wide glass tube containing graduated paper scale reading from -25° to 90°, with 80° as B.P. Every degree is divided into five parts. The paper scale carries the words: 'Thermometre selon Réaumur Par Mossi Ingenieur. Breveté Privilégié du Roi; de MM. De l'Académie Royale des Sciences et de la Société Royale de Médicine pour les Instrumens de Physique &c. Quai Pelletier N° 16 au Second à Paris Mai 1789'.
 
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name: -
name: Paris
date/range: 1952
date of: donation
epoch: 20 (2°)
name: Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
resp.: owner
name: Paris
date/range: May 1789
date of: construction
epoch: 18 (2°)
name: unknown Mossy
resp.: maker
name: Paris
date/range: May 1789
date of: construction
epoch: 18 (2°)
 
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Chemistry Apparatus Thermometer