- Subject
- Thermometers
- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- Dollond
- Provenance
- From the Radcliffe Observatory
- Primary inscriptions
- "DOLLOND, LONDON." At one end above the bulb hole "DAY" and below the other hole "NIGHT".
- Other inscriptions
- Handwritten on reverse "Radcliffe Observatory"
- Object type
- Thermometer
- Dimensions
- Height: 41mm Width: 221mm
- Inventory No
- 13551
Description
Rectangular plate of silvered brass without its two thermometers, for which the tube fixings still survive. The scales run from from -10 to 120 Fahrenheit. Two home-made wires have been added to allow the instrument to be suspended vertically.
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