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Object NameBeckmann Differential Thermometer in Original Packaging
Manufacturer Brooklyn Thermometer Company, Inc.
Made FromGlass, Mercury, Nickel, Cardboard
Dateabout 1960-1970
SizeOverall H: 70 cm, Diam (max): 2.5 cm; (a) Thermometer H: 64.1 cm, Diam: 1.7 cm
Accession Number2016.8.409
Credit LineGift of Richard A. Paselk
Place Made
Germany
Physical DescriptionBeckmann Differential Thermometer in Original Packaging. (a) Colorless and opaque white glass, mercury, nickel. Colorless tube with opaque white milk glass baking inside the large tube. There is a nickel cap on top made of straight tubing to which a flat, knurled-edge top with a small turned knob in the center. The thermometer is graduated from -0.24 to 5.55°C and -0.25-5.54°C by 1/100 °C on the main scale , and from -10 to 150 °C by two degrees on the upper "setting" scale. The upper scale has every 20 degrees numbered, while the main scale is numbered every 0.2° with larger numbering at each degree. (bc) Two-part blue cardboard tube with white and silver labels.
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