Timeline of temperature and pressure measurement technology

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Timeline of temperature and pressure measurement technology

• 1592 � Galileo Galilei builds a crude thermometer using the contraction of air to draw water up a tube
• 1612 � Santorre Santorio puts thermometer to medical use
• 1643 � Evangelista Torricelli invents the mercury barometer
• 1714 � Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the mercury in glass thermometer
• 1821 � T.J. Seebeck invents the thermocouple
• 1864 � Henri Becquerel suggests an optical pyrometer
• 1885 � Calender-Van Duesen invented the platinum resistance temperature device
• 1892 � [[Henri-Louis Le Ch�telier]] builds the first optical pyrometer

See also List of timelines.

References

• Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Timeline_of_temperature_and_pressure_measurement_technology" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_temperature_and_pressure_measurement_technology, used under the GNU Free Documentation License