- Date
- 1940 – 1955
- Material
- glass; metal, mercury; plastic
- Catalogue Number
- 104.27.0001 a,b
- Description
- A thermometer (a) in a platstic case (b).a) An glass oral fever thermometer with a triangular shaped stem and a long thin bulb for mercury at the bottom. A scale is marked on the side with gradations from 94o to 110o and a red arrow at 98.6o (normal human body temperature) Farenheit. The thermome…
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- Title
- Thermometer
- Date
- 1940 – 1955
- Material
- glass; metal, mercury; plastic
- Dimensions
- 0.3 (a) x 0.2 (a) x 10.3 (a); 11.3 (b) cm
- Description
- A thermometer (a) in a platstic case (b).a) An glass oral fever thermometer with a triangular shaped stem and a long thin bulb for mercury at the bottom. A scale is marked on the side with gradations from 94o to 110o and a red arrow at 98.6o (normal human body temperature) Farenheit. The thermometer is marked “Tycos 6 TB 1”.b) The case is a tube of black plastic with a screw-on lid. There is a flattened fingerhold just below lid.
- Subject
- households
- health
- medicinal
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.27.0001 a,b
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