Posted : September 2010
Author : the admin
Thermometer Man is the perfect name for the 83-year-old
Richard T. Porter. He has the biggest collection of thermometers, almost 5000
in different shapes and sizes. Before losing his daughter to a brain tumor he
promised her to do something with his collection, and therefore he opened The
Porter Thermometer Museum in the small village where he lives; Onset in Wareham Massachusetts.
He began to collect when he was a science teacher for a
junior high, because he used thermometers a lot in classes. He has given the National Weather
Museum in Penn State
the permission to take his whole collection when he is no more around. Porter
has some stories to tell when it comes to his travelling through every state
and 20 other countries to collect thermometers, and the collection is also in
Guinness Record Book.
Aside from collecting them he has fixed many broken
thermometers, and has a good reputation around that so that people all the way
from New Zealand
are sending him their broken thermometers.
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