Thermometer
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A thermometer is a device that measures temperature. A thermometer has two important elements: a temperature sensor in which some change occurs with a change in temperature; and some means of converti
Mercury thermometer (mercury-in-glass thermometer) for measurement of room temperature.
Fifty-degree thermometers from the mid-17th century on exhibit at the Museo Galileo with black dots representing single degrees and white represented 10-degree increments; used to measure atmospheric temperatures
A medical mercury-in-glass maximum thermometer
An alcohol thermometer
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
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Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit FRS was a physicist, inventor, and scientific instrument maker. He was born in Poland to a family of German origin, although he spent much of his life in the Dutch Republic.
Thermometer
…1701, Isaac Newton (1642–1726/27) proposed a scale of 12 degrees between the melting point of ice and body temperature. In 1714, scientist and inventor Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invented a reliable thermometer, using mercury instead of alcohol and water mixtures. In 1724, he proposed a temperature scale which now (slightly…
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Fahrenheit's birthplace in Gdańsk
House where Gabriel Fahrenheit died in 1736, at Plein square, The Hague