A thermometer is a device that measures temperature, the hotness or coldness of an object. Sparse and conflicting historical records make it difficult to pinpoint the invention of the thermometer to any single person or date with certainty. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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YearSourced to the subject's own account SignificanceSourced to the subject's own accountGalileo Galilei had studied the ancient Pneumatics translations behind the air thermoscope by 1594, laying groundwork later refined into the sealed mercury thermometer. 1 PurposeSourced to the subject's own account Thermometer
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A thermometer is a device that measures temperature (the hotness or coldness of an object).
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In 1714, scientist and inventor Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invented a reliable thermometer, using mercury instead of alcohol and water mixtures.
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Translations of the ancient work Pneumatics were introduced to late 16th century Italy and studied by many, including Galileo Galilei, who had read it by 1594.
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Thermometers are widely used in technology and industry to monitor processes, in meteorology, in medicine
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Thermostats have used bimetallic strips but digital thermistors have since become popular.
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A thermometer is a device that measures temperature (the hotness or coldness of an object). A thermometer has two important elements: (1) a temperature sensor (e.g. the bulb of a mercury-in-glass thermometer or the pyrometric sensor in an infrared thermometer) in which some change occurs with a change in temperature; and (2)
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producing the first successful mercury-in-glass thermometers
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