Timeline of temperature and pressure measurement technology

Timeline of temperature and pressure measurement technology

• 1000s - Abū Alī ibn Sīnā (Avicenna) develops an early air thermometer which can measure the level of water controlled by the expansion and contraction of the air.^[1][2]
• 1592- 1593 — Galileo Galilei builds an early thermometer, known as the thermoscope using the contraction of air to draw water up a tube ^[3]
• 1612 — Santorio Sanctorius puts thermometer to medical use
• 1629 — Joseph Solomon Delmedigo describes in a book an accurate sealed-glass thermometer which uses brandy
• 1643 — Evangelista Torricelli invents the mercury barometer
• 1714 — Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the mercury-in-glass thermometer
• 1821 — Thomas Johann 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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See also

• List of timelines

References

Robert P. Benedict (1984) Fundamentals of Temperature, Pressure and Flow Measurements, 3rd ed ISBN 0-471-89383-8