Thermo Electric

Thermo Electric Co., Inc., of Saddle River Township, New Jersey, made thermocouple wire, extension wire and cable. A Union Carbide plant's stores card lists it among suppliers of a thermocouple extension wire insulated with felted asbestos and asbestos yarn. The library holds no record of how the company ended.

Draft. The history on this page was written from the documents in our library and has not yet been reviewed by a person.

Products

The library's labels for Thermo Electric Wire have boxes to mark the wire as for thermocouples or for extensions.¹ One filled-in spool label, for 750 feet of extension wire, gives a military specification, MIL-W-5846A, and chromel and alumel conductors coded white and green.² A photograph shows a cable printed "Thermo Electric Co. Inc." and "THERMO CABLE."³ The trademark files give first use of the Thermo Electric wire mark in January 1945 and of Thermo Cable on July 20, 1960.⁴⁵ None of these labels or photographs states what the insulation was made of.

In the Union Carbide records

A stores card from Union Carbide's Plant 510, produced as a trial exhibit, describes a 16-gauge chromel-alumel extension lead wire with "Enamel and Felted Asbestos, on each Wire and Yellow Asbestos Yarn Braid Overall."⁶ The card lists Thermo Electric, at a Houston, Texas, address, as one of the vendors for this wire, with Gay Sales Co. of Houston and Instrumentation Inc., and records orders from 1967 to 1974.⁶ The card's vendor column marks two of its six orders, in 1969 and 1971, as placed with Thermo Electric.⁶ The same card, with the same production number, appears in a second exhibit from the files of Union Carbide's materials manager.⁷

References

1. Label: Thermo Electric wire tag, ACL Doc 20618
2. Label: ThermoElectric thermocouple extension wire spool, ACL Doc 20622
3. Product: Thermo Cable, ACL Doc 20748
4. Thermo Electric Wire (Thermo Electric) product page
5. Thermo Cable (Thermo Electric) product page
6. Union Carbide exhibit UC-1417: Plant 510 stores blanket-order cards for asbestos-containing wire, packing and gasket items, p. 2
7. Union Carbide exhibit UC-5185: purchase requisition and stores cards from P. Gentry (materials manager) files, p. 2

Asbestos products

2 products our documents name Thermo Electric as making or selling. Each product's page says what the documents say about it, including its asbestos content.

• Thermo Cable (Thermo Electric)
• Thermo Electric Wire (Thermo Electric)

In our library

4 documents in our library name Thermo Electric, by collection.

Other library documents (4)

• Label: Thermo Electric WIRE (publisher)
• Label: Thermo Electric wire tag (Thermo Electric Co., Inc.) (1945) (publisher)
• Label: ThermoElectric thermocouple extension wire spool (Thermo Electric Co., Inc.) (1945) (publisher)
• Product: Thermo Cable (Thermo Electric Co., Inc.) (1960) (publisher)

In the Union Carbide documents

Thermo Electric is named in 2 Union Carbide documents (2 mentioned), from asbestos lawsuits over Union Carbide's Calidria asbestos. All are published in our collection.

• Plant 510 Stores Blanket-Order Cards and Printouts for Asbestos-Containing Wire, Packing and Gasket Items (Battalora and Gentry Files) UC-1417 (mentioned)
• Purchase Requisition and Stores Cards for Asbestos Wire, Packing and Gasket Materials, from P. Gentry (Materials Manager) Files (undated) UC-5185 (mentioned)

Names in the documents

The spellings documents use for Thermo Electric, OCR misreadings included, so a search for any of them finds this page: Thermo Electric Co..

Where this comes from

This page brings together every document in our library that names Thermo Electric, across collections. Titles and affiliations are taken from the documents themselves, and units and subsidiaries are grouped under the company they belong to.