thermometer

     

The thermometer is a evice that measures temperature or temperature gradient using a variety of different principles. The word thermometer is derived from two smaller word fragments: thermo from the Greek for heat and meter also from Greek, meaning to measure. A thermometer has two important elements: the temperature sensor (e.g. the bulb on a mercury thermometer) in which some physical change occurs with temperature, plus some means of converting this physical change into a value (e.g. the scale on a mercury thermometer). Industrial thermometers commonly use electronic means to provide a digital display or input to a computer.

Trivia about thermometer

  • This device reads 234-240 degrees F. when your candy reaches the soft ball stage
  • The clinical type of this is used to measure body temperatures; the magnetic type, temperatures under-450 degrees F.
  • Usually credited to Galileo, it originally contained water or alcohol, not mercury
  • In 1867 Thomas Allbutt invented one of these instruments which took 5 minutes to register instead of 20
  • Carl Wunderlich introduced the use of this instrument to modern medicine in the 1850s, not 1898.6
  • All 134' of this object in Baker, Ca. represents the record 134° heat once recorded in nearby Death Valley
  • NASA technology used to detect a star's birth is now used in the ear type of this, which measures your infrared energy
  • In 1866 a physician invented one of these that took a few minutes to take a reading instead of the normal 20
  • In 1866 Dr. Thomas Allbutt was all brain when he invented a 6-inch one of these; safer fluids have replaced mercury
  • Mercury bulb, scale
  • A Beckmann one of these can detect a tiny change in boiling point when one substance is mixed into another

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