Timeline of temperature and pressure measurement technology
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Timeline of temperature and pressure measurement technology
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
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 Châtelier[?]
builds the first optical
pyrometer
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