Alcohol thermometer in metal frame

Made:: 1700-1799 in France

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Alcohol thermometer in metal frame by Sormany (French)
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Alcohol thermometer in metal frame by Sormany (French). Marks the summer temperature for Paris in 1735 as 35 deg C; bulb missing. Wellcome No. B934

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Category:: Heat

Object Number:: 1980-188

type:: thermometers

credit:: Wellcome Institute

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