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Mercury Thermometer belonging to Thermograph?, Late 19th Century

Inventory Number 81786


Item type
Object
Provenance
From the Radcliffe Observatory.
Primary inscriptions
Unsigned and undated.
Physical material
Mercury
Glass
Object type
Thermometer
Inventory No
81786

Description

Long capillary tube with right-angled bent at bottom ending in the bulb. There is no scale and largest part of the capillary stem is blackened. In wooden transport box with an identical thermometer inv. no. 18827.