Thermometer

Object/Artifact

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Perth Museum

Thermometer - Jack IIllingworth: Science & Technology
Thermometer - Jack IIllingworth

Science & Technology

Name/Title

Thermometer

Entry/Object ID

022.3.1.2

Description

Decorative, framed, mercury thermometer, in Fahrenheit. To be hung indoors. On top Painted black, on the plastic cover is a silhouette of a window looking outside and a table with flowers in the middle of the window. Bottom middle is the following: JACK ILLINGWORTH LUNCH BAR GROCERIES - MEATS CONFECTIONARY PERTH ONTARIO Underneath the plastic is a framed colour picture of a lake with trees on both sides and in the background trees surrounding the lake. On the far left is a thermometer, with a vile of red mercury, gold plate with numbers in black. First column from top to bottom 120 degrees to minus 40 degrees. In between 40 and 20 degrees it say freezing; The thermometer is in the middle; second column from top to bottom 110 degrees to minus 30 degrees. At the bottom, Made in USA.

Made/Created

Date made

circa 1940 - 1950

Time Period

20th Century, Sometime between 1940 and 1950's

Dimensions

Height

10.3 cm

Width

0.7 cm

Length

25 cm