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Timeline of temperature and pressure measurement technology

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Timeline of temperature and pressure measurement technology. A history of temperature measurement and pressure measurement technology.

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1500s

  • 1592–1593 — Galileo Galilei builds a device showing variation of hotness known as the thermoscope using the contraction of air to draw water up a tube.

    • 1600s

  • 1612 — Santorio Sanctorius makes the first thermometer for medical use
  • 1617 — Giuseppe Biancani published the first clear diagram of a thermoscope
  • 1624 — The word thermometer (in its French form) first appeared in La Récréation Mathématique by Jean Leurechon, who describes one with a scale of 8 degrees.
  • 1629 — Joseph Solomon Delmedigo describes in a book an accurate sealed-glass thermometer that uses brandy
  • 1638 — Robert Fludd the first thermoscope showing a scale and thus constituting a thermometer.
  • 1643 — Evangelista Torricelli invents the mercury barometer
  • 1654 — Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, made sealed tubes part filled with alcohol, with a bulb and stem, the first modern-style thermometer, depending on the expansion of a liquid, and independent of air pressure
  • 1695 — Guillaume Amontons improved the thermometer

    • 1700s

  • 1701 — Newton publishes a method of determining the rate of heat loss a body and introduces a scale, which had 0 degrees represent the freezing point of water, and 12 degrees for human body temperature.
  • 1701 — Ole Christensen Røemer made one of the first practical thermometers. As a temperature indicator it used red wine. (Rømer scale), The temperature scale used for his thermometer had 0 representing the temperature of a salt and ice mixture (at about 259 s).
  • 1709 — Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit constructed an alcohol thermometer e
  • 1714 — Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the mercury-in-glass thermometer x
  • 1731 — René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur the Réaumur scale, On this scale 0 represented the freezing point of water (273.15 K) and 80 represented the boiling point (373.15 K).
  • 1738 — Daniel Bernoulli asserted in Hydrodynamica the principle that as the speed of a moving fluid increases, the pressure within the fluid decreases. (Kinetic theory)
  • 1742 — Anders Celsius created an inverted centigrade or Celsius temperature scale in which 100 represented the freezing point (273.15 K) and 0 represented the boiling point (373.15 K).
  • 1743 — Jean-Pierre Christin had worked independently of Celsius and developed a scale where zero represented the melting point of ice (273.15 K) and 100 represented the boiling point (373.15 K).
  • 1744 — Carl Linnaeus suggested reversing the temperature scale of Anders Celsius so that 0 represented the freezing point of water (273.15 K) and 100 represented the boiling point (373.15 K).
  • 1782 — James Six invents the Maximum minimum thermometer

    • 1800s

  • 1821 — Thomas Johann Seebeck invents the thermocouple
  • 1844 — Lucien Vidi invents the aneroid Barograph
  • 1845 — Francis Ronalds invents the first successful Barograph based on photography
  • 1848 — Lord Kelvin (William Thomson) – Kelvin scale, in his paper, On an Absolute Thermometric Scale
  • 1849 — Eugene Bourdon – Bourdon_gauge (manometer)
  • 1849 — Henri Victor Regnault – Hypsometer
  • 1864 — Henri Becquerel suggests an optical pyrometer
  • 1866 — Thomas Clifford Allbutt invented a clinical thermometer that produced a body temperature reading in five minutes as opposed to twenty.
  • 1871 — William Siemens describes the Resistance thermometer at the Bakerian Lecture
  • 1874 — Herbert McLeod invents the McLeod gauge
  • 1885 — Calender-Van Duesen invented the platinum resistance temperature device
  • 1887 — Richard Assmann invents the psychrometer (Wet and Dry Bulb Thermometers)
  • 1892 — Henri-Louis Le Châtelier builds the first optical pyrometer
  • 1896 — Samuel Siegfried Karl Ritter von Basch introduced the Sphygmomanometer to measure blood pressure

    • 1900s

  • 1906 — Marcello Pirani – Pirani gauge (to measure pressures in vacuum systems)
  • 1915 — J.C. Stevens — Chart recorder (first chart recorder for environmental monitoring)
  • 1924 — Irving Langmuir — Langmuir probe (to measure plasma parameters)
  • 1930 — Samuel Ruben invented the thermistor

    • References

    Timeline of temperature and pressure measurement technology Wikipedia
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