Portable/traveller's thermometer

Made:: 1880-1900 in Germany

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Portable/traveller's thermometer, mercury in glass, paper scale, sheathed, in brass casing. Fahrenheit. No signature visible, late 19th century [labelled Glaisher]

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Category:: Meteorology

Object Number:: 1995-1808

Materials:: glass, mercury, brass and paper

Measurements:: whole: 37.8 cm

type:: thermometer

credit:: Meteorological Office

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