Tester, thermometer
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- OBJECT TYPE
- AIRPLANE PANEL/PORTABLE
- DATE
- Unknown
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1985.0585.001
- MANUFACTURER
- LEWIS ENG. CO.
- MODEL
- 81TT3
- LOCATION
- Naugatuck, Connecticut, United States of America
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- 3311
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 2
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- Wood casing/synthetic inner casing, knobs & parts/metal tester dial casing & parts/paper instruction sheet affixed to casing lid interior/leather carrying strap/metal & glass thermometer.
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 25.2 cm
- Width
- 21.5 cm
- Height
- 13.7 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Physics
- Category
- Thermal & thermal conductivity
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- LEWIS
- Country
- United States of America
- State/Province
- Connecticut
- City
- Naugatuck
Context
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- Unknown
- Canada
-
Unknown - Function
-
A tester for airplane panel engine thermometers. - Technical
-
Unknown - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- Plate on exterior reading "THE LEWIS ENG. CO./NAUGATUCK, CONN., U.S.A./MODEL NO. 81TT3 SERIAL NO. 3311"/ mfr's name, article name, & operating instructions incised in white on inner casing/plate on tester casing reading "WESTON/MODEL 269 NO. 83400/WESTON ELEC. INST. CORP. NEWARK N.J., U.S.A."/black scale on glass of thermometer & on tester dial face.
- Missing
- From CA of 12/03/2001 by David Daley: Undetermined - empty holder in thermometer space may indicate missing parts
- Finish
- Red-brown stained & varnished wood/black inner casing tester dial casings/black & red knobs/plated case fittings/brown leather/plated thermometer.
- Decoration
- Incised groove around upper edge on casing bottom.
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LEWIS ENG. CO., Tester, thermometer, Unknown Date, Artifact no. 1985.0585, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/item/1985.0585.001/
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