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Object NameBeckmann Differential Thermometer in Original Packaging

Manufacturer Brooklyn Thermometer Company, Inc.

Made FromGlass, Mercury, Nickel, Cardboard

Dateabout 1960-1970

Place MadeGermany

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

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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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Source Richard Paselk - 2016-11-10