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Description: | Inclined plywood board mounted on small retort stand holding 3 Thermometers to compare the temperature scales of Celsius, Kelvin and Fahrenheit. Mounted on wooden block are three mercury thermometers - one is a Celsius scale thermometer with a scale from -10 to 110 degrees C, one an absolute (Kelvin) scale thermometer with scale from 253 to 313 degrees K and the other is a Fahrenheit scale thermometer with scale from 0 to 240 degrees F. There is also a piece of paper, protected by plastic, which gives the melting point of ice, body temperature and the boiling point of water in each of the three scales. Inscribed on the centigrade scale thermometer is BRITISH MAKE N/F FULL IMM, on the absolute scale thermometer is TOTAL IMMN NF CMO D378038 and on the Fahrenheit scale thermometer, it says NORMALGLAS | License: | http://www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/Copyright_terms_conditions.shtml | Publisher: | ABDNP University of Aberdeen, Natural Philosophy Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments | Rights holder: | 47718 | Temporal: | 1950-1970 | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Identifier: | http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.e... | Go to resource |
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