Sir Robert Christison's Cistern Thermometer, 1871
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Sir Robert Christison's cistern thermometer, by Adie & Son, Edinburgh, incorporating a Negretti & Zambra mercury thermometer, London, 1871. Used by Sir Robert Christison in 1871, to measure lakes' differential temperature at different stratified layers.
Details
- Category:
- Oceanography
- Object Number:
- 1913-163
- Materials:
- copper (alloy), brass (copper, zinc alloy), enamel, glass and mercury
- Measurements:
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overall: 600 mm 155 mm, 3.98kg
- type:
- thermometer and mercury thermometer
- credit:
- Mill, Dr. Hugh Robert
