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How Thermometer Was Invented?

James H. Sterling • • 6 min read
How Thermometer Was Invented?

The more modern thermometer was invented in 1709 by Daniel Fahrenheit

Daniel Fahrenheit
A pioneer of exact thermometry, he helped lay the foundations for the era of precision thermometry by inventing the mercury-in-glass thermometer (first widely used, practical, accurate thermometer) and Fahrenheit scale (first standardized temperature scale to be widely used).
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. It was an enclosed glass tube that had a numerical scale, called the Fahrenheit scale. The early version of this thermometer contained alcohol and in 1714 Fahrenheit developed a mercury thermometer using the same scale.

How did Galileo invent the thermometer?

In 1593, Galileo Galilei invented a rudimentary water thermoscope, which for the first time allowed temperature variations to be measured. ... It was perhaps the first crude clinical thermometer, as it was designed to be placed in a patient's mouth for temperature taking.

Who really invented the thermometer?

1612: Santorio Santorio – the first thermometer

The Italian, Santorio Santorio (1561-1636) is generally credited with having applied a scale to an air thermoscope at least as early as 1612 and thus is thought to be the inventor of the thermometer as a temperature measuring device.

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