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  Dampfverbrauch und bodenzahl

  • Steam Consumption and Plate Number

  • 1907-Dec

  An article titled Verbesserungen an elektrischen Pyrometern (Improvements to Electric Pyrometers) by F. Hirschson published in the journal Dampfverbrauch und bodenzahl. The article was collected by Georg Bredig…

  • Author Hirschson, F.
  • Subject Pyrometers, Temperature measurements, Scientific apparatus and instruments
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  Manuscripts

  Conversions from degrees Celsius to degrees Fahrenheit

  • Undated

  Equations for converting degrees Celsius to degrees Fahrenheit

  • Creator Of Work Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944
  • Subject Chemistry, Mathematics, Temperature measurements
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  Manuscripts

  List of conversions

  • Undated

  List of conversions from the imperial system to the metric system

  • Creator Of Work Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944
  • Subject Metric system, Mathematics, Physical measurements, Temperature measurements
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  Scientific apparatus and instruments, Glassware

  Total immersion mercury thermometer

  • 1800s

  A: Bulb containing mercury attached to a glass tube of narrow diameter. Thermometer has Celsius scale with 20-30 degree range with major divisions every 1 degree and minor divisions every 0.1 degree.

  B: Protective…

  • Subject Temperature measurements, Thermometers
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  Scientific apparatus and instruments, Glassware

  Mercury thermometer

  • 1800s

  A: Bulb containing mercury attached to a glass tube of narrow diameter. Thermometer has Celsius scale with 0-100 degree range.

  B: Protective cardboard tube for the thermometer (not digitized).

  Partial immersion…

  • Subject Temperature measurements, Thermometers
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  Rare books, Engravings

  Plate 2: The expansion of air by heat

  • Part of A New System of Chemical Philosophy

  • 1808

  Fig. 1 represents an air thermometer, or the expansion of air by heat.

  Fig. 2 is the logarithmic curve.

  Fig. 3 is a device suggested by "Mr. Ewart," to illustrate Dalton's idea on the temperature of the atmosphere.

  • Author Dalton, John, 1766-1844
  • Engraver Slack
  • Printer Russell, S.
  • Subject Dalton, John, 1766-1844, Expansion (Heat)--Measurement, Chemistry, Inorganic, Expansion (Heat)--Mathematical models, Thermometers, Atomic theory, Expansion (Heat), Temperature measurements
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  Rare books, Engravings

  Plate 1: Capacities of bodies for heat; views of mercurial and water thermometer divisions

  • Part of A New System of Chemical Philosophy

  • 1808

  Fig. 1 is intended to illustrate Dalton's ideas on the subject of the capacities of bodies for heat.

  Fig. 2 is a comparative view of the old and new divisions of the scale of the mercurial thermometer.

  FIg. 3 is a…

  • Author Dalton, John, 1766-1844
  • Engraver Slack
  • Printer Russell, S.
  • Subject Dalton, John, 1766-1844, Chemistry, Inorganic, Thermometers, Atomic theory, Temperature measurements