Temperature Collection (page 2)

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Chicken with flu

Eggs / France / 18th C
The Art of making chicks hatch. Eggs are kept in barrels buried in dung. Thermometers are used to control the temperature and make eggs hatch faster. Date: Circa 1760

Source L Hopital - Vichy, France - Temperature of the healing waters is 31 degrees. Delivers 2500 litres of water per hour! Date: circa 1910s

Malvern Water Cure (5)
(5 of 12) Water Cure at Malvern The Douche " Oh!, Oh!, Oh!, Oh!"

Malvern Water Cure (6)
(6 of 12) Water Cure at Malvern The Rain Bath " You must be shut in for 15 minutes Sir!"

Nurse and patient at the Medical Centre, Hendon
Scene at the Metropolitan Police Medical Centre, Hendon, north west London, with a nurse taking a patients temperature with a thermometer

Testing the water for babys bathtime
A mother tests the temperature of the water for her babys bath. Soap, talcum powder and cotton wool are ready on a table at her side

Androsace Chumbii (Chumbyi) in winter
Androsace Chumbii (Chumbyi), of the Primulaceae family, also known as rock jasmine or fairy candelabra, seen here in winter

Thermograph chart showing fall of temperature inside cabinet at sance at the National Laboratory of Psychical Research, possibly with Rudi Schneider, dated 17 April 1929. HPG/8/5/6

Benfleet Creek during the winter of 1947
Benfleet Creek in Essex, haunt of motor boat enthusiasts and summer bathing belles wears a forbidding aspect during the big freeze of 1947

Thermega electric blanket, used to warm the sheets
Replacing the hot water bottle. Placing a Thermega electric blanket between the sheets. This invention meant that warmth in the bed could be stored for several hours

Geology Earths Crust
The narrow band of Earths crust, about 20 km wide, is perfectly suited in density and temperature to sustaining life as we know it : a few degrees difference - wow !

Mechanical Cooling
A " punkah" -type ventilator for keep cool during warm weather or heat wave, comprising of a large fan operated by foot pedals

Thermometer Frame 1868
Everyone knows that thermometers need to be kept snug and warm, so readers of the magazine are invited to embroider this cosy frame for their instrument

Christmas in Russia
During the war with Japan, Russian soldiers celebrate Christmas as best they can, though the temperature is down to -30 Celsius

An old snowman says Happy Christmas
An old snowman (5 degrees below zero !) says A Happy Christmas on this greetings card

Doctor and Street Arab
THE POWER OF IMAGINATION Street Arab (to Doctor, who has just been taking his temperature). " Ah, Sir! That done me a lot o good, Sir!"

Tennis Ball Cooler
A box for keeping tennis balls at an even temperature at the All England Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Club, England. This man is taking their temperature with a thermometer!

Steel - Electric Oven
High-Temperature Electric Oven

French Incubators-
Dr Tarniers Couveuse pour Enfants (= incubators) in use at La Maternite Hospital, Port Royal, Paris; introduced in 1881, gas heating maintains temperature at 32o Celsius

CELSIUS (1701 - 1744)
ANDERS CELSIUS Swedish astronomer, gave his name to centigrade temperature scale

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