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Could they be thermometers? Anyone know when ones for measuring air temp began being marketed? Clinical thermometers would be different in a number of readily identifiable ways.
Lindsay
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From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Doug Ross [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2013 1:28 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: clear glass tubes
Could they be from the inside of a light bulb?
Doug
On 2013-02-02, at 10:19, Sarah Sportman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hello,
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> I'm trying to identify a few artifacts we recovered from back yard contexts in a 19th century mining town in the Adirondacks. We found six fragments of thin, clear glass tubes. They are a little smaller in diameter than a modern drinking straw and round in cross-section. All are broken and each fragment is less than 3 inches long. The fragments came from the yards of three different domestic sites, including a tenement house, a double house, and the superintendent's house. The sites were occupied from the mid 1870s to the mid 1890s. Any help in identifying them would be greatly appreciated!
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> thanks,
> Sarah
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