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Box with mercury thermometer
    • Setting:
      Room XV
    • Maker:
      John Troughton
    • Place:
      London
    • Date:
      1782-1800
    • Materials:
      wood (box); silvered brass (base plate for thermometer), glass
    • Dimensions:
      box 567x78x32 mm, thermometer length 55 mm
    • Inventory:
      1718
    • Box with mercury thermometer (Inv. 1718)

The wooden box contained four thermometers. Inside the box cover is written the name of the maker, John Troughton. Only two identical mercury thermometers have survived (the other is inv. 941). They are mounted on a silvered brass plate. Both have Réaumur and Fahrenheit scales.