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Brown Electric Recording Pyrometer 1914 NICE One Of A Kind # 19520
$ 422.4
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Brown Electric Recording Pyrometer 1914 NICE One Of A KindEdward Brown (1834-1905) was an Englishman who landed in New York in 1858, moved to Philadelphia, opened a small shop, and produced the first pyrometer of American design. He won a Centennial Medal in 1876, and a John Scott Medal in 1897. The firm became Edward Brown & Son in 1905, The Brown Instrument Company in 1910, and a division of Honeywell in 1934.
The a 24-hour paper chart on this instrument is marked "BROWN ELECTRIC RECORDING PYROMETER." The sensor is marked “1200” and “11640” and “KLG.” The cover of the case (now missing) had a brass plate marked "BROWN ELECTRIC RECORDING PYROMETER / EDWARD BROWN & Son / PHILADELPHIA, PA. No. 11,640 PATENTS PENDING."
Ref: The Brown Instrument Company,
Brown Pyrometers... Catalogue No. 9
(Philadelphia, ca. 1913), p. 23.