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Total Immersion Thermometers, by J C Cowlishaw Ltd, Manchester, English, 1922

Inventory Number 46174


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.46174

Item type
Object
Provenance
Presented by Dyson Perrins Laboratory per Dr A. S. Bailey. Associated with J C Smith
Dimensions
Height: 182mm Width: 85mm
Inventory No
46174
Accession Number
1989-7

Description

Set of 7 thermometers, glass with mercury, in wooden case covered with black cloth and lined with purple silk and velvet. Also contains paper with Smith's calibration of the thermometer against N. V. Sidgwick's standard (see 1937-38) with graph and historical note.

Made for Dr. J. C. Smith and used by him in Manchester and then at the Dyson Perrius Laboratory, Oxford; together with a manuscript sheet containing Smith's calibration and notes.