Thermometer

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OBJECT TYPE: mercury/centigrade/fever
DATE: 1943
ARTIFACT NUMBER: 2002.0741.001

MANUFACTURER: Wehrmacht
MODEL: Unknown
LOCATION: Unknown

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General Information

Serial #: N/A
Part Number: 1
Total Parts: 1
AKA: N/A
Patents: N/A
General Description: glass thermometer contains mercury

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length: 13.0 cm
Width: 1.3 cm
Height: N/A
Thickness: N/A
Weight: N/A
Diameter: N/A
Volume: N/A

Lexicon

Group: Metrology
Category: Temperature
Sub-Category: N/A

Manufacturer

AKA: Wehrmacht
Country: Unknown
State/Province: Unknown
City: Unknown

Context

Country: Germany
State/Province: Unknown
Period: Post WW 1.
Canada: Part of a large collection of medical artifacts, archival material & trade literature transferred to CSTM in 2002 from the former History of Medicine Museum, Toronto, ON.
Function: Unknown
Technical: Unknown
Area Notes: Unknown

Details

Markings: Scale -35 to 42, divided by single increments and labelled at intervals of 10: all markings in black except for "37" which is in red, with a red star. On reverse: " b. 13/ Maxima 1/10 C. 1 Minute/ Normalglas/ Wehrmacht" printed in black. " 15/ [logo incorporating DR]/ 2/ 43" etched into glass, on reverse side of thermometer casing. UHN catalogue no. "979.20.3" printed by hand in black ink on one end.
Missing: None.
Finish: Clear glass body has white [glass?] insert on which scale in printed; silver mercury.
Decoration: N/A

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Wehrmacht, Thermometer, circa 1943, Artifact no. 2002.0741, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collections.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/2002.0741.001/

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